Owning a dog can be quite fan because you can play football or run through the park, but when you get home you will like to sit on your couch or seat. Because dogs tend to scratch sofa’s you probably don’t want him to sit next to you. But just like you, your dog will [...]

Many of today’s playwrights and authors have canine friends lying in a quality dog bed alongside them as they hammer away at computers. Not all writers are happy to face their critics, though.

Take playwright John Osborne for example.

‘The relationship between critic and author is like that between dog and lamp post.’

Cynical or what?

Here’s George Bernard Shaw in more reflective mood.

‘My dog is half pit bull terrier, half poodle,’ he observed as he studied his unusual pet reclining in his dog bed. ‘Not much of a watchdog but a viscious gossip.’

Another gem from GBS:

‘If you eliminate smoking and gambling you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman’s pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.