Dog lover and dog fashion line entrepreneur talking about his poodle, "Noodle": "He loves doggie day care, they have doggie cam so you can log-on  and I can see him having so much fun running around with a bunch of other dogs."

Dog lover and breeder: "Tuba was the love of my life. He died in 2012. I know he’s not alive, I know he’s stuffed."

Dog lover and dance instructor: "With Tinkie, I have a dance studio and I’ll leave her with some of the other teachers and they all say: Oh she was a big sook while you were gone."

Veterinarian and researcher: "(Dogs have) been bred and raised to be highly socialised species so they’re acutely in tune to our behaviour as well."

Psychologist and animal behaviourist: "Dogs are good human manipulators, they basically have nothing else better to do all day than observe our behaviours."