Mankind's best friend...

First the disclaimer... I love cats.
They are soft and fuzzy, and warm.
Well, at least their coats are. And
they can be too. But we are the cat's
staff.

Dogs are ok, in my book. They are
cool, as they accept us as we are.
For all the endurance of our indifferent
from time to time, yet they still act
like we are the only one in their lives.

Dogs you can hug and they don't care.
You can cry on their shoulder and they
look at you, like they understand. You
can also have them live outside and it
is no problem to them, as long as they
are fed, and have warm housing. And
you show up from time to time during
the day to pet them or hug them. Dogs,
it is mostly an unconditional love. Most
dogs that is. Some are like humans,
and probably brought on by an insensitive
human, but are vicious.

Dogs are also trained to help mankind.
We all know of the duck retriever and
you might have even heard of the drug
smelling dog. Then there are the ones
who have saved peoples lives in fires.
St. Bernard dogs in the alps who find
people lost in the snow...

And now we have dogs who can be
trained but some do it on their own..
they can smell cancer on you. If you
are a non believer in this... you should
ask the woman whose dog kept smelling
a mole on her leg.. so much so, she went
to the doctor and found out she had the
very early start of melanoma. Or the man
who was in a test for cancer smelling dogs.
He was suppose to be the clean one, as
he had been screened a week before the
test. All of the dogs came to him and their
behavior was that he had cancer. They thought
the test had failed. But the dogs were
persisting. So they had him go for additional
test. And it was found he had a tumor in his
kidney. When it comes to melanomas the dogs are
99% right. Saving many people.

Yes, dog is surely mankind's best friend.