A long time ago when the earth was young everyone lived together, hunted together, fished together, played together.
One day the Great Spirit came by and called all the people together. He said, ?Now listen up!?, and as He spoke he drew a long line in the sand. He then said, ?I want all of you that call yourself mankind to step to this side of the line.? When all had done so, He said, ?I want all of you who call yourself critterkind to step to that side of the line.?, and all did so. The Great Spirit then said, ?From now, this is how it shall be.?
He raised his arms and a mighty thunder rolled across the land. The line in the sand became a crack in the earth that reached to its very center and grew wider and ever wider, forever seperating critter from man.
As the earth continued to split, a great howling could be heard. A sound so loud the Great Spirit covered his ears, and for an instant the earth stood still. The sound was man calling for dog, and dog calling for man, for they could not be apart. In that instant, before the distance was to great, dog jumped across to be with man, and this is how it shall be.