"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog." ...Franz Kafka

"A long time ago, dogs were regularly mistreated - unfed, unloved, and abused. So they gathered together and wrote a letter to God, selected a messenger dog and inserted the letter inside him below his tail - so he would not drop it when he ate or barked, for the journey would be long and hard. Generations passed and the dogs are still waiting. That is why they sniff each other - they are searching for God's reply!"....Chipas Folklore

All quotes from a book by Raymond Merritt and Miles Barthof entitled 1000 Dogs, probably the most incredibly moving collection of photographs I have ever seen, regarding any topic.