A Dog's Purpose Themes

Whether it is a dog, a cat, or a Burmese python, a pet is part of the family. Pets appear in family photos and home movies, and they sign holiday cards with their paws (or their forked tongues dipp...

"Puppy Love" was a popular song in the 1960s and '70s, crooned by both Paul Anka and Donny Osmond. There's even an urban legend that a DJ played the song for an entire morning in 1972, going for th...

Here are a few words we associate with dogs: cuddly, furry, lovable, slobbery, loyal. All of these traits are important—especially the slobber factor—but most people probably place the highest...

Snoopy's red doghouse is almost as iconic as the bipedal beagle himself. Dogs can make their homes in a variety of places, from a red house that doubles as a fighter plane, to the foot of his owner...

Have you ever looked at your dog and wondered what he or she is thinking? Maybe the dog is thinking about its next meal or its next nap. Perhaps the pup has thoughts of chasing balls—or its own t...

We're told that All Dogs Go to Heaven. But if we believed everything Don Bluth said, we'd also think that mice wore cowboy hats and that Matt Damon was a space explorer years before he became the M...

Woof woof yip bark growl ruff ruff. Translation: In fiction, many dogs end up talking like humans, either conveying their thoughts in little bubbles, like Snoopy, or in voiceover, like the adventur...

Before developing a sense of object permanence, a child believes that if he or she cannot see an object, it must not exist. That means that when mom leaves, she is gone forever. If food is taken aw...