CORRIGAN, J.
The subject of this intensely contested appeal is a domestic animal which has been immortalized in the prose and poetry of many nations and for myriad years as man's best friend, the dog.
Perhaps the best known and most quoted in our age is the Eulogy on the Dog by Senator George Graham Vest recorded in Johnson County Circuit Court at Warrensburg, Missouri, in which the dog was extolled as:
"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man...
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