Caucasian Sheperd Dog in Popular Culture
- In Blood Rites, a novel of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, the main character, Harry Dresden, is "adopted" by a "Foo Dog"—which has been confirmed by Butcher to be based on the Caucasian Sheperd Dog. He names the dog "Mouse", who becomes a stalwart protector of the wizard.
- In a series of Scot Harvath novels by Brad Thor, a featured character known as "the Troll" has two Caucasian Ovcharkas which serve as his guard dogs...
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Famous quotes containing the words dog, popular and/or culture:
“The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
“I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and culture of their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)