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"It is an interstitial creature, neither person nor beast, forever oscillating uncomfortably between the roles of high-status
animal and low-status person. As a consequence, the dog is rarely accepted and appreciated purely for what it is… Instead, 
it has become a creature of metaphor, simultaneously embodying or representing a strange mixture of admirable and despicable traits. 
…Elsewhere, the dog’s ambiguous or intermediate status has endowed it with supernatural powers, and the ability to travel as a 
spiritual messenger or psychopomp between this world and the next.”
(Serpell, 1995)

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"Contempt of the world, contempt of thyself: rejoice in thy own contempt, but despise no other person."
(Pierre de Luxembourg; 1386)

"They who love no longer have the virtues to do anything but wander in the storms of love."
(Hadewijch; 1200)

Wie die Tiere den Jäger begraben ("how the animals bury the hunter.")
(Moritz von Schwind; 1850)

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For Saint Christopher, among others..
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