Barbara Woodhouse Quotes

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

— Barbara Woodhouse

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

— Barbara Woodhouse

“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

“You need eyes that tell the dog who watches them what you are feeling toward it, even though the message may be hidden from the outside world. Above all, you nee telepathy so that the dog thinks with you. These things are not always born in people. They can be developed as any sense or gift can be developed. That is, providing the person wishes to develop them is honest in mind, because with animals you cannot cheat ...”

— Barbara Woodhouse

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

— Barbara Woodhouse

“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

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

— Barbara Woodhouse

“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

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

— Barbara Woodhouse

“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.”

— Barbara Woodhouse

“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

“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

“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

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

— Barbara Woodhouse

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