| ~ The Heartbeat at My Feet ~ |
| Music: Someone to Watch Over Me Nancy's Journal Whispers - Home Old New Orleans |
| "My little dog...a heartbeat at my feet." -- Edith Wharton |
| "God sat down for a moment when dog was finished in order to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better, and He was satisfied." -- Maria Rilke |
| "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I'm convinced that, basically, dogs think humans are nuts." -- John Steinbeck |
| "Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that a child cannot do much harm one way or another." -- Robert Benchley |
| "The bad news is that it's difficult to teach an old dog new tricks; the good news is that, by then, old dogs, unlike their human companions, have been observant and generally already know everything they need to." -- Author Unknown |
| "In the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence." -- Rose F. Kennedy |
| "After scolding one's cat, one looks into its face and is seized with the suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference." -- Charlotte Gray |
| "Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, a cat is still only a whisker away from the wilds." -- Jean Burden |
| Junior.... |
| .....the heartbeat at my feet. |
| "Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of humankind." -- Cleveland Amory |
| "Dogs are our link to paradise. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring---it was peace." -- Milan Kundera |