Elias Weiss Friedman

We don't get that much anymore.

And so it's important.

They remind us that we matter like your shirt says, and that feeling of love that we get through eye contact is priceless.

And yeah, just like when you walk around the street with your dog, you're talking about meeting new people.

You probably wouldn't have met them otherwise.

Who knows if your ideologies align, like whether you would have struck up a conversation with this person.

Otherwise the dogs don't ask these questions.

They just have a magnetism, a gravity about everything they do and attracting other people and attracting.

love connection.

I think we take it for granted.

It's something that we've gotten used to living with a dog, but my goal with this book and really the whole dog is project.

Everything I'm doing is to deepen our appreciation for dogs and help them live better lives and hopefully save a number as many as possible from living life in a shelter.

Yeah, it's a dark part of reality and being a human is abandoning things that we once cared about.

Or I remember being in Texas, arriving at their municipal shelter, city shelter, and

I got there at 9 a.m., and there's already a line of people waiting to relinquish their dogs to surrender them for whatever reason.

And, of course, your instinct is to judge them.

And I guess you can, but people may be struggling financially, health-wise.

It's just an unfortunate thing.

And in places where there's overpopulation around the country, especially in the South, they unfortunately have to do based euthanasia, which is unfortunate.

And a lot of it has to do with overbreeding and