Travis Coates Quotes

“He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Then, later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks. That’s how much I’d come to think of the big yeller dog.”

“There’s no hope for him now, Travis. He’s suffering. You know we’ve got to do it.”

“But he was my dog. I’ll do it.”

“After that, I couldn’t do enough for Old Yeller.”

“It was the first time I’d ever shaken hands like a man. It made me feel big and solemn and important in a way I’d never felt before.”

“I’ll wear you to a frazzle.”

“I was just numb all over, like a dead man walking.”

“We called him Old Yeller. The name had a sort of double meaning. One part meant that his short hair was a dingy yellow, a color that we called “yeller” in those days. The other meant that when he opened his head, the sound he let out came closer to being a yell than a bark.”