They generally give us the benefit of the doubt even when we are dead wrong, wagging their tails while licking the hands that feed them. In their way, they pledge unending devotion, no matter what.One doesn’t have to look very far into literature or incline their ears to very many songs to hear dogs revered by the masses, but reviled by some who have no use for them.Elvis Presley reminded some canines that they were “nothing but hound dogs,” and an expression from the lips of thoughtless people suggests that some situations “shouldn’t happen to a dog.”A canine defender compared ...