NP: Some history of the Learned Dogs. Serendipity.

[Mark Kohut]

>From a remark in an essay on The Odyssey, about the old dog therein,
the writer says that dogs are the philosophical animal as Plato wrote
about them in The Republic, citing the pages, and I looked them up

and Plato calls them 'wisdom-loving" in the dialogue with Glaucon
they are seen as always friendly--they don't bark as the dog doesn't in The
Odyssey--
 to those they already know yet first to sound hostile--bark--at strangers,
therefore

very fitting, in that respect, to be Guardians of The Republic.
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