Barbara Woodhouse Quotes

#1. Animals are so much quicker in picking up our thoughts than we are in picking up theirs. I believe they must have a very poor opinion of the human race.

Barbara Woodhouse

#2. I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are wacked for life.

Barbara Woodhouse

#3. The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp nose of a dog were in my opinion all God-given for one purpose only-to make complete fools of us human beings.

Barbara Woodhouse

#4. When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

Barbara Woodhouse

#5. Talking to animals' isn't a matter of words used, it is a matter of your thoughts, your expression, and above all the tone of your voice. A harsh voice from me can make my cows jump in terror. I shouted at old Queenie once and she got such a shock that she fell down just as if she'd been shot ...

Barbara Woodhouse

#6. I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.

Barbara Woodhouse

#7. Dogs understand your moods and your thoughts, and if you are thinking unpleasant things about your dog, he will pick it up and be downhearted.

Barbara Woodhouse

#8. I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.

Barbara Woodhouse

#9. I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world ...

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#10. Dogs aren't born knowing what or what not to do; they only learn like children.

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#11. I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

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#12. There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is something delightfully lovable about a really clean pig, in clean yellow straw.

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#13. The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

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#14. One has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

Barbara Woodhouse