Best Friends

There is Hide Park in London where is an old cemetery of dogs. Inscriptions on the little monuments include the words of gratitude and love for the faithfulness and pleasure, which dogs presented to their owners. There is even such legend that dogs has wet and cold nose, because dog chilled it while tried to close the hole in the Noy's ark!
The Maltese lap dog is one of the ancient breeds. There were in the King's and Imperator's palaces. They were washed and sprayed with toilet water, caressing them and carrying on a silk pillows. In China eunuchs took care of the Imperator's dogs, and everybody who tried to do anything bad for them was killed.
There are a lot of examples in the classic literature. Odysseus dog Argus had recognized him after long wandering. One of the ancient King's dog jumped in to the fire, where the body of it's owner was burned. Another one had recognized the killer of it's owner and killed him. Should touch the story about little dog who didn't want to leave it's mistress and accompanied with her to scaffold. The mistress was The Scottish Queen Maria Stuart. Palma in Russia waited for it's owner on the aerodrome for a year. There are great amount of such examples helps us everywhere.
They are guides of the blind people, dogs help to find people in mountains, dogs has good influence on the children. People who have and love dogs can easy transfer cardiovascular diseases, a hypertension, a flu...
During the centuries people express gratitude to the dogs for their self-denying service.
In Ancient Rome and Greece there were coins with the pictures of a dogs in VII-VI centuries.
In Corinth city a dog woke up the whole garrison to protect city from enemies, and there is a
monument in it's honor and was gifted with silver collar. Another silver collar was found at the excavation of the Pompeii. Dog protected a child from volcano and heated lava. Everybody knows the story about Irish Wolfhound, which was killed by his master Lord, when he saw it's stained with blood mouth. Lord thought that wolfhound killed his baby and killed the dog with a
sword. And after he saw the corpse of a huge wolf near the alive child. The lord full of repentance and gratitude has put to a wolfhound a monument.
Dogs are our friends indeed. They'll never let it's owner down and we have a lot of reasons to be thankful to this great animal and not to concern to it as a consumers.