A dog creates, transcribes, a new landscape for you. A dog like Colter sharpens your joy of all the seasons, and for a while, sometimes a long while, such a dog seems capable, by himself alone, of holding time in place — of pinning it, and holding it taught. And then when he is gone, it is as if the world is taken away.

Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had (2000)