Any Dog People Here ?

A man that never knows the love of a good dog (or good horse), there is a small piece of his soul that is never found. Someone a lot smarter than me said something like that once.

My mother was raised in SW Ga on a large farm way back many many decades ago, She was born in 1908, I was born in 1948. She had a dozen dogs at one time. There was no such thing as store bought dog food, but it was a large farm, she had 9 brother and sisters, many farm hands of which their food and shelter was provided. Plenty of "table scraps"!
I guess I get my connection to dogs an livestock thru her.