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It is possible to say that Sigmund Freud's relationship with dogs was limited to interpreting dogs as symbols he encountered in his patients’ dreams until he met the German shepherd Wolf, who was included in the Freud family in 1925. Over the years following Wolf's arrival, many new dogs have joined the family, all of them were beside Anna and Sigmund Freud, sometimes on daily walks, sometimes directly in the consulting room, in sickness and in health, as well as while fleeing the Nazi threat on the eve of the Holocaust. Against the destructiveness of the period that pushes the limits of human imagination, there is a tradition emerged that includes the four-legged members of the Freud family: Congratulatory poems written in the words of dogs on Sigmund Freud's birthdays. These poems, written by Anna Freud, were attached to dogs’ collars and presented to Sigmund Freud by them on his birthdays. In addition to Turkish translations of six of the aforementioned poems, another letter also written in the words of one of the dogs was compiled in this article.