DOGS DIDN’T USE TO BE man’s best friend. I’m no bible reader, though I have it on decent authority that dogs are mentioned many times, but only with abhorrence. Shakespeare didn’t treat dogs much better. Their various behaviors and general filthiness seem to have repulsed the poet. Historically, no one wants to ‘lead a dog’s life’ or ‘go to the dogs’ or ‘die like a dog.’ Even today, there are people who find dogs disgusting. Donald Trump often uses dogs as a metaphor when criticizing someone. But, notwithstanding the Mar-a-Lago mountebank, somewhere along the line things changed and dogs metamorphosed from vile curs to loveable pets. They have their own doctors (vets), food manufactured just for them right out of a handy can (often vitamin-enriched), cute cold weather jackets to wear, their own beds, doggie boarding houses, dog parks, and even devoted shelter workers trying to find them ‘forever homes.’ Responsible, loving humans with dogs even carry on their walks the necessary accoutrements with which to pick up the dog’s poop. It has become the so-called Life of Riley. No, perhaps it is better described as the Life of Fido.
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