@ missteacher, thanks for your timely comment. i just want to react to it, at least if only to buttress your submission about the arabians; though, it is claimed that dog does not have a place in islam, but isn't it proper to cultivate some of the significant aspects of dog and apply it to our ways of living... since islam makes peace, love and tolerance as its primary tenets-all of these roll into one are encompass in the characteristics of a dog... until human beings learn to live in tolerance with each other before we can experience what islam preaches- peace!