When I was first teaching composition at the University of MN, I came across an odd phrase in a student paper–this, she said is a “doggy dog world.” Hmmmm…..and then I realized she’d misheard the phrase “dog eat dog” world as “doggy dog world.” I prefer a doggy dog world, myself.
But another aspect of the doggy dog world we live in is the working dog–watching the teams just before a race is so wild–the dogs are so excited that they yelp and jump and bark and jump some more. And then the great moment when they get to run, and off they go yelping (now joyfully) as they fly across the frozen surface of the lake.








