In the 2010 comedy Marmaduke two Afghan hounds appear in the dog park and are shown to resemble high school girls watching the more athletic dogs as if they were " jocks " and are also shown to be " air heads ".

Prairie dogs raise their heads from their burrows in response to disturbances.

In another story there were nine Telchines, children of Thalassa and Pontus ; they had flippers instead of hands and dogs ' heads and were known as fish children.

They waddle forward, poking their heads to and fro in their usually absurd way, in spite of a string of howling dogs straining to get at them.

All who see me, laugh me to scorn, they draw apart their lips, and wag their heads: ‘ He trusts in the Lord: let him free him, let him deliver him if he loves him .’ Stand not far from me, for I am troubled ; be thou near at hand: for I have no helper … Yea, dogs are round about me ; a company of evildoers encircle me ; they have pierced my hands and feet – I can count all my bones – they stare and gloat over me ; they divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots " ().

Bulls likewise were bred there with the heads of men ; and dogs with fourfold bodies, terminated in their extremities with the tails of fishes: horses also with the heads of dogs: men too and other animals, with the heads and bodies of horses and the tails of fishes.

However, Quiquern is really just two sleigh dogs that ran away from the village and accidentally tied each other together, making them appear to be Quiquern with 8 legs and 2 heads.

Over the centuries dogs used for bull-baiting developed the stocky bodies and massive heads and jaws which typify the breed as well as a ferocious and savage temperament.

Themes found throughout Dogon sculpture consist of figures with raised arms, superimposed bearded figures, horsemen, stools with caryatids, women with children, figures covering their faces, women grinding pearl millet, women bearing vessels on their heads, donkeys bearing cups, musicians, dogs, quadruped-shaped troughs or benches, figures bending from the waist, mirror-images, aproned figures, and standing figures ( Laude, 46-52 ).

In Huntsman and Dogs ( 1891 ), a lone, impassive hunter, with his yelping dogs at his side, heads home after a hunt, with deer skins slung over his right shoulder.

Working type dogs tend to be larger with flatter heads and shorter ears.

Paul the Deacon mentions cynocephali in his Historia gentis Langobardorum: " They pretend that they have in their camps Cynocephali, that is, men with dogs ' heads.

In the domain of comics publishing in North America and in Europe many works feature an " all-cynocephalic " cast or use the heads of dogs and other animals together for social comment or other purposes.

* In the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman, Jews have human bodies and the heads of mice while characters with their roots in the United States have human bodies and the heads of dogs, Germans have the heads of cats, and the French have the heads of frogs.

Matt Cameron writes songs and we run to find step stools in order to reach his level ,... what comes naturally to him leaves us with our heads cocked like the confused dogs that we are ,... eventually getting it.

Baring Gould said that it derived its name from the shape assumed by the blocks on the summit that have been weathered into forms resembling the heads of dogs peering over the natural battlements.

It seems rather peculiar that residents of apartments are denied the right of providing themselves with the protection and companionship of dogs.

In the sides of the tappets are notches with sloping sides, and connection between the tappets and locking bars consist of cams called `` dogs ''.

Two or more dogs are mounted on each locking bar.

The dogs on the other ends of these locking bars are thus forced into notches in other tappets.

Encounters with dogs are another threat.

Hot dogs and hamburgers are both based on traditional German dishes, brought by German immigrants to the United States, but in their modern popular form they can be reasonably considered American dishes.

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

The most common are those made of milanesa, baked ham and cheese, pan de miga, toast, pebetes, panchos ( hot dogs ), choripanes, morcipanes, etc.

In dogs, the adrenal glands are found at the level of the 12th thoracic vertebra.

During the summer months ( April – September ), dogs are banned from the Silver Sands but they are allowed all year round at the Black Sands.

Usually the dogs are his own, who no longer recognize their master.

Traditional forms of hunting on Sunday are illegal, except for raccoons which may be pursued until 2 a. m., hunting on licensed hunting preserves, use of dogs all day to hunt bear, raccoon and fox.

Dogs that are physically fit and vigorous in their youth through middle age are more vigorous and healthy as elderly dogs, all other factors being equal.

To this day short-haired Hortaya Borzaya are highly valued hunting dogs on the steppes, while the long-haired Psovaya Borzaya, is going through a hard period of restoration of its working qualities after decades of shadow, mainly show existence.

The Canoidea superfamily ( or Caniformia suborder ) – Canidae ( wolves, dogs and foxes ), Mephitidae ( skunks and stink badgers ), Mustelidae ( weasels, badgers, and otters ), Procyonidae ( raccoons ), Ursidae ( bears ), Otariidae ( eared seals ), Odobenidae ( walrus ), and Phocidae ( earless seals ) ( the last three families formerly classified in the suborder Pinnipedia ) and the extinct family Amphicyonidae ( bear-dogs ) – are characterized by having nonchambered or partially chambered auditory bullae, nonretractable claws, and a well-developed baculum.

The Canidae ( wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes and dogs ) are generally considered to be the sister group to Arctoidea.

Most people have a strong intuition that some animals, such as dogs, are conscious, while others, such as insects, are not ; but the sources of this intuition are not obvious.

Both dogs and coyotes can kill and not consume the prey, either because they are inexperienced, due to injury or difficulty in killing the prey.

The device was determined to be a three-foot (. 9-m ) long TOW missile used in the training of federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs ; although actually inert, it had been marked " live " in order to mislead arms traffickers in a planned law enforcement sting.

English nouns are not marked for case as they are in some languages, but they have possessive forms, formed by the addition of -' s ( as in John's, children's ), or just an apostrophe ( with no change in pronunciation ) in the case of-s plurals and sometimes other words ending with-s ( the dogs ' owners, Jesus ' love ).

In comparison to specimens of different sex, due allowance should be made in favour of the bitches, which do not bear the characteristics of the breed to the same marked degree as do the dogs.

In a conformation show, the judge must decide the degree of severity of the faulty bite, and therefore how much the dog must be marked down in relation to other dogs.

Remnants of test animals, including a cage marked Cerberus, still remain there ... Not to mention rabies-infested dogs stalking the halls, and a shadow that resembles the Cerberus of legend.

* Zoophilic organisms are found primarily in animals and cause marked inflammatory reactions in humans who have contact with infected cats, dogs, cattle, horses, birds, or other animals.

`` I've seen you walking your dogs on Sunday and driving by in the convertible.

Then, at last, his day would fall into an ordered pattern and he would be free to read, or garden or just wander through the woods in the late afternoon, accompanied by his dogs.

Nakamura ( '58 ) was unable to demonstrate their existence, either by anatomic or physiologic methods, in dogs.

) She snarled terribly but intuition told him, again, that she was bluffing, and he could see that half her attention was distracted by the dogs.

Later writers were shocked by the incest: in Hyginus, the day Aeolus learned that one of his sons, Macareus, had committed incest with his sister Canace he expelled Macareus and threw the child born of this incestuous union to the dogs, and sent his daughter a sword by which she was to kill herself.

One is on Medny Island ( Commander Islands, Russia ), which was reduced by some 85 – 90 %, to around 90 animals, as a result of mange caused by an ear tick introduced by dogs in the 1970s.

The details vary but at the core they involve a great hunter, Actaeon who Artemis turns into a stag for a transgression and who is then killed by hunting dogs.

This light is occasionally described by subsequent interpreters as a meteor, sometimes as the moon, and some accounts also mention the barking of dogs.

Hares and other small game were by far the most numerous kills, but the hunters especially loved to test their dogs on wolf.

* Ivan, one of the protagonists of the historical novel by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes, El hombre que amaba a los perros ( The Man Who Loved Dogs ), is the editor of a university journal of veterinary medicine, who manages to make a living during the Special Period in Cuba by helping people take care of their dogs.

The novel alludes to Ivan's own dogs as well as to Borzoi dogs owned by Leon Trotsky and his assassin, Ramón Mercader.

An ornate granite drinking bowl which serves the needs of thirsty dogs at the entrance to Bodmin ’ s Priory car park was donated by Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand who lived at Tredethy.

Their rhea is attacked by two dogs, represented by bright stars in Centaurus and Circinus.

These spurious dogs floated about the astronomical literature until Hevelius decided to specify their presence in the sky by making them a separate constellation in 1687.

Coyotes have never been domesticated ( not the same thing as tamed ) with the possible exception of the Hare Indian dogs, which may have been domesticated coyotes or dog-coyote hybrids, used by the Hare Native American tribe of northern Canada for hunting.

About three to five pets attacked by coyotes are brought into the Animal Urgent Care hospital of south Orange County ( California ) each week, the majority of which are dogs, since cats typically do not survive the attacks.