Dogs, Snoopy and Charles M Schulz

The Nelson Mail | February 19, 2000 | Copyright

A dog is the only thing on Earth that loves you more than you love yourself, wrote US philosopher-humorist Josh Billings. Not surprisingly then, dogs have arguably been the favourite pet animal of humans. Cat-lovers will bridle at such a contention, and certainly cats may well outnumber dogs as pets. But, as is often said, cats have people for pets, while dogs exemplify virtues we struggle to find in our fellow humans: fidelity and constancy.

Dogs have fulfilled many working and service roles for humans, but it's as a pet that they have become most loved, especially with such anthropomorphic ...

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