Then dogs like poodles would get lost in the mud, or killed in the crowd if they ran behind a carriage.

Only knowing dogs like me can make their way about." I rather doubted this speech; but I said nothing, and he went on patronizingly: "However, Joe, thou hast reason, as the French say.

Mrs.Judge Tibbett didn't give her dogs exercise enough.
Their claws were as long as Chinamen's nails, and the hair grew over their pads, and they had red eyes and were always sick, and she had to dose them with medicine, and call them her poor, little, 'weeny-teeny sicky-wicky doggies.' Bah! I got disgusted with her.

When I left her, I ran away to her niece's, Miss Ball's.

She was a sensible young lady, and she used to scold her aunt for the way in which she brought up her dogs.
She was almost too sensible, for her pug and I were rubbed and scrubbed within an inch of our lives, and had to go for such long walks that I got thoroughly sick of them.