For the dogs.

I was listening to Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour this morning. Each week Bob Dylan spins records from his personal collection and waxes philosophic on a topic of choice. 

The show I heard this morning was about dogs and around the end of the show Bob (I can call him Bob, right?) read this quote:

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog”

As much crap as my dog gives me I do love the little bugger and the quote above really shows why doggie dogs are great.