It took 5 months before this dog began to act very aggressively toward the baby sitter. Their docile domesticated dog began baring his teeth and had to be restrained. Red flags were raised for the parents who put an I phone in the sofa ready to record. What they heard deeply disturbed them--painful cries from their baby boy. The baby sitter was arrested, the baby protected, and the dog got filet mignon. Nobody how the dog resolved it--it is still a nightmare for those parents and any others.
What we have acted out here is "man's best friend," in the most generic sense. More than one scholar on anthropology of people and dogs have reported of the bond of mutual survival between people and dogs. Surely survival is deepest in both and the bond reinforces it in people and their pets.
With eye upraised his master's look to scan,
The joy, the solace, and the aid of man:
The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend,
The only creature faithful to the end.
George Crabbe
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