The dog is an animal who lives in a unique relationship to man and between whom and man there is a unique bond of sympathy. Professor Buytendijk is inclined to attribute this to the fact that both are in a sense exiles from the straightforward simple life of nature. 'Through his mind which desires to know and will know, man no longer forms part of the natural world. He is no longer a member of one single milieu, but consciously realizes his own ego, his loneliness'. The dog, on his part, has forsaken the wolf pack and clung to man, and to a large extent exchanged his primitive gregariousness as a pack animal for a parasitic attachment to man, an attachment, however, which is not based merely on the fact that man is his 'source of food and comfort', but which has been possible because 'there is in man something that holds him fast. … Man is