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Domesticated dogs, in the mammalian Order Carnivora, family canidae, are closely related to wild dogs such as the Dingo, and coyotes, wolves, and jackals; foxes are of the vulpes genus.
Physical characteristics of dogs include powerful muscles, teeth for catching, holding and tearing, small feet and walking on their toes (digitigrades) with the ability for both endurance, sprinting, and jumping.
There are approximately 800 recognized breeds of domesticated dogs, ranging in size from Chihauhaus to Irish Wolfhounds. Dogs are trained for working (ie. herding sheep), sports (racing), and as companions, earning the name “man's best friend.”
Dog quotes ~
• “If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.” ~ Enid Bagnold
• “The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
• “Therefore to this dog will I, / Tenderly not scornfully, / Render praise and favor: / With my hand upon his head, / Is my benediction said / Therefore and for ever.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To Flush, My Dog, st. 14
• “I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.” ~ G. K. Chesterton
• “You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.” ~ Emily Dickinson
• “Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.” ~ Max Eastman
• “You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman
• “He that lies with the dogs riseth with fleas.” ~ George Herbert
• “What man love me, love my dog.” ~ John Heywood
• “Rain or shine, the dog was always there, waiting for a boy - one of dozens who would come pelting across the concrete playground - but for the dog, the only one who mattered.” ~ Eric Knight, Lassie
• “Generally, when a man raised an expecially fine dog, some day it would stop being a dog and instead would become something on four legs that was worth money.” ~ Eric Knight, Lassie
• “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on the hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was boring – it was peace.” ~ Milan Kundera
• “Charity is the bone you share with your dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.” ~ Jack London
• “The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.” ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
• “A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.” ~ H. L. Mencken
• “No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.” ~ Christopher Morley
• “If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.” ~ Will Rogers
• “The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.” ~ Mme de Stael
• “I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.” ~ John Steinbeck
• “I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.” ~ Johan August Strindberg
• “You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!” ~ Harry S Truman
• “My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.” ~ Edith Wharton
• “If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
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