But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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.
If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.
Every day, the humane societies execute thousands of dogs who tried all their lives to do their very best by their owners. These dogs are killed not because they are bad but because they are inconvenient. So as we need God more than he needs us, dogs need us more than we need them, and they know it.
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.