Sometimes it can be difficult to express the love humans have for dogs and vice versa. Here are our top 10 favourite quotes about dogs that show dogs’ unconditional love.

• “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” - Josh Billings
• “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” – Roger A. Caras
• “Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?” - Gabrielle Zevin
• "The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two." –Maeterlinck
• "No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does." - Christopher Morley
• "No matter how little money and how few possessions, you own, having a dog makes you rich.” - Louis Sabin
• “It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.” - John Grogan
• “After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.” - Robert McCammon
• “No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog." - Stanley Leinwoll
• "In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog." - Edward Hoagland