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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Dog is God spelled backward.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.

A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.

When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.

People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.