The word "Faithful" (loyal) was copiously associated with dogs for ages but it seemed to have eased out of the lexicon with the Agrarian society. Personally I loathe the word but its still used by considerable amount of people in world.
But the unanimously gospel that's associated with dogs is "unconditional love". I have been agnostic using that word since it has self-vindicating feeling to it. The unconscious litany to it is, the self is an unconditional lover (a.k.a morally superior) which fellow humans lack and eventually found it only in dog. Its an unintended convenient self proclamation and no wonder, it there is an aura around that word.
Yes, Max loves me and will always, no matter what and I would die for him too. Even if self proclamation is taken out of the equation, unconditional love (assuming it does exists) still has repercussive feel to it. It sounds like an intelligent design.
Science has most of the answers for feelings we share with our dogs, evolution explains how the bond originated but the romantic inside us perpetually searches for more answers and drives science to get more answers.
The love we share with fellow humans is eclipsed by social norms, values, differences and people constantly changing with time. Most importantly, our love persists only by making compromises with ourselves and others to co-exist and of-course it had a great evolutionary advantage but we lost the sanctity of love in the process. May be we are overwhelmed by the non-compromising bond we share with our dogs and call it unconditional love since we already accepted as an fact that our love is conditional. I keep it simple, I love Max and its Rhizomic.
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