It did not take Man long - probably not more than a hundred centuries - to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or a llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg, or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection. When the first man brought the first dog to his cave (no doubt over and above his wife's protests), there began an association by which Man has enormously profited.
- James Thurber, Thurber's Dogs: An Introduction, p.799 in Writings & Drawings
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