10. Your dog is your best friend, your matchmaker, your confidant, and your personal/marriage/family counselor.

9. Because your love for even the goofiest looking, feet licking, butt wagging, tongue always hanging out pooches also translates to a love of some of Hollywood’s quirkiest actors, their uninhibited portrayals of some of life’s most bizarre characters, and their unique ways of expressing their untraditional stories.



8. Because even though you didn’t learn everything you needed to know in kindergarten, part of you feels like you could learn everything from your dog…

7. To find joy and contentment in every pleasure life places before us…

6. To never waste our time being embarrassed or ashamed about who we are or how we feel…

5. To let others know how much we love and care for them at every opportunity we get…

4. To be honest about the love we need and never be afraid to reach out and ask for it…

3. To love and be loved unconditionally.

2. Because there is a part of us that knows we can be as sure and alive as the happiest of dogs—
no matter our breed, our grooming, our home, our athletic ability, our smarts, our tricks, our calendar, or our social skills.

1. Because we want to know and believe in a world where the unique love, connection, and joy that we see in many dog/dog owner relationships exists as a part of the bigger design of this very world in which we live, a small picture of an ideal reality of love and value that each of us was made to not only desire, but to be nothing less than an abundantly receiving, confidently giving, and irreplaceable part of.