Dogs, Dogs, Dogs
It is remarkable to think that if you were in the Stone Age, some
four-teen thousand years ago, and you glanced across the flickering
camp fire, you might well have seen a dog that looked much like any
dog that you might see in the streets of our cities or even resting
at your your feet today. For hone hundred and forty centuries,
humans and dogs have shared their food, dwellings, and lives.
Throughout these years, dogs have helped humans in their hunting and
herding. at various times, they have served as guides, protectors of
the household, garbage collectors, power for transportation,
comrades in war, and even as food. Dogs have functioned as
comforting companions; they have been trained as actors and athletes
to amuse; they have been served as aids to psychotherapy.
Despite our long association with dogs, humankind has maintained
many conflicting attitudes toward these ever-present animals. In
some times and places, people have viewed dogs as loyal, faithful,
noble, intelligent, courageous , and sociable; in other eras and
locations, humans have thought dogs cowardly, unclean, disease
ridden, dangerous and unreliable. In some cultures and during
certain historical epochs, people have considered dogs to be holy:
companions of gods, guides for souls, angels or even gods
themselves. Other cultures view dogs as demons, harbingers of death,
and the embodiments of the devil. In certain regions, history
records that to be licked or touched by a dog was to be defiled or
soiled, while at other times and places, such attentions were
believed to play a part in the healing process and signaled that a
person was clean, virtuous, and without fault.
Dogs play an important part in our every day life, history and
future.....more then you know;
"We are alone. absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid
all the forms of life that surrounds us, not one, excepting the dog,
has made an alliance with us".....Quote by Maurice Maeterlinck
Contact your local breeder to learn more on a particular dog
breed before making a final decision....
