Are dogs really men's best friends?

I was just staring blankly into space when I started to create some thoughts on the things around me.

I started thinking, even in western context (perhaps due to my poor English standards) I really couldn't find a phrase about dogs that can be used positively. For example, "raining cats and dogs" isn't really a positive way to describe the weather. And even as we claim them to be our best friends, we wouldn't even use "as loyal as a dog" or some phrase along that line. We even call some people "bitch" , or use phrases like "stop bitching about her"; and even calling the girl that we hate a "bitch."

Chinese are actually worse off in this area. Take Chinese for example:

狗嘴吐不出象牙
a dog can never produce an elephant's tusk out of its mouth. (When used on a person) It would mean the person can never produce some thing good out from his mouth.

狗眼看人底
This means a dog looking down on humans; when the irony is that dogs are shorter than humans. In other words, a dumb person is saying that he is smarter that some one else.

狼心狗肺
Heart of a wolf and lungs of a dog. This phrase is self-explainable.

好狗不挡路
"A good dog never blocks the road" If using towards a person, it would mean asking the person to get out of your way.

The Chinese even call dog's meat "香肉" which means fragrant meat. So, the Chinese REALLY like them, just not as best friends but perhaps as a delicacy on the dining table. Yucks.

During world war 2, Germans were really creative in training our best friends as self-seeking bombs for the enemy tanks but only to realize that the dogs went for their tanks instead of the enemies. Thus, making them, our best friends, the worse weapon of the century.

In Singapore, Malays who are Muslims and are owning dogs as pets are a rare sight itself too. I don't really know why, but I assume it could be due to their culture or religion that dogs aren't really welcome as pets in their household.

From these thoughts, I am really starting to believe that we humans aren't really true to our words. It is such irony and contradictions that we have been creating that makes us ridiculous.

Moral of the story: So the next time your best friend questions asked if this is the way to treat your best friends; tell her/him ,"trust me, you don't really want to know how I treat my best friends."