As much as they enhance our lives, dogs disrupt them as well, and Gurney certainly understands that.
On the other hand, in their daily lives dogs are repeatedly asked to look at humans in many different situations in which dogs may need more flexibility in detecting the relevant communicative cues of their human partners.
Then again, going to the pound and adopting a real live dog is free.
We had a carthorse, a cat, a woman in a gorilla costume, a live dog.
"A Christmas Story" also has a live dog (two, actually), just like "Annie," another Broadway show with a Christmas theme.
His doll was a real, live dog – whose jaw he was accused of manipulating in the name of primetime entertainment.
In one well-publicised incident a man held aloft a live dog in a noose and asked activists how much they would pay to save it.
I flinch from manipulative touches such as miniaturised trains and a live dog: two things calculated to send audiences into swooning raptures.
When the king touched one of the apples the dog turned and barked so loud that the king's own — living — dog took to his master's defense.
Walters hawked Alpo on the air, assisted by live dogs.
