10 Wonderful Life Lessons Your Dog Can Teach You

Owning a dog can be one of the most rewardingexperiences of this earthlylife, and can also be one of the most fruitfulfriendships in which you'll ever partake. Of course, everyone desiresa polite pupwith good manners. Sometimes, though, we get socaught up in training our tail-waggers that we forget that they have a few lessons to teach us, too. Our furry friends can be some of our wisest advisers if we take a few pages out of their playbooks. We’ve compiled a list of the tenbest life lessons we've learned from ourprecocious pets.

10. Don’t judge a book by its cover.

This old adage stands true for dogs as much as for their human counterparts, and we'd be wise to apply the rule to both species. The gigantic dogs deliveringthunderingbarks often carrythe most gentle hearts. Aten-pound poochmay displaymore resolve than any of his largerworking-class peers.

A dog doesn’t know its own size and therefore will never underestimate itself.

The lesson to take away from this? You are exactly what you make yourself out to be. There could be a great lion sleeping inside a small lamb if you believe there is. Don't forget to apply this underdog principle to those around you, too.