"If there no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went"

- Will Rogers

 

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"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

- James Herriot

 

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"The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief.  But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love."

- Hilary Stanton Zunin

 

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"Grief never ends, but it changes.  It is a passage, not a place to stay.  The sense of loss must give way, if we are to value the life that was lived."

- Author Unknown

 

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"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

- Anatole France

 

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"Heaven goes by favor.  If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."

- Mark Twain

 

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"A pet is never truly forgotten until it is no longer remembered."

- Lacie Petitto

 

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"Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened."

- Ted Geisel (Dr Seuss)

 

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"I lost a treasured friend today

The little dog who used to lay

Her gentle head upon my knee

And shared her silent thoughts with me.

 

She'll come no longer to my call

Retrieve no more her favorite ball

A voice far greater than my own

Has called her to his golden throne.

 

Although my eyes are filled with tears

I thank him for the happy years

He let her spend down here with me

And for her love and loyalty.

 

When it is time for me to go

And join her there, this much I know

I shall not fear the transient dark

For she will greet me with a bark."

-Author Unknown