The Dog is calledthe first pet, pet king because of its wisdom and sincerity in the humansociety. Dogs are closely associated with human and plays an important role inhuman society. This paper aims to emphasize the importance of the dog in thehuman’s life, through summarizing dogs’ intelligence, loyalty and emotional bondwith mankind from different literary images in novels so as to call on peopleto stop abandoning, killing and abusing dogs, which is not only ethical treatmentto animals, but also kindness to human.

In recent years, therehave been many studies on biological characteristics of dogs and closerelationship between dogs and humans at home and abroad. Refer to foreignresearches, in 2016, Dogs Recognize Dogand Human Emotions written by Natalia Albuquerque, Kun Guo, Anna Wilkinson,Carine Savalli, Emma Otta and Daniel Mills demonstrated that dogs could extractand integrate bimodal sensory emotional information, and can discriminatebetween positive and negative emotions from both humans and dogs. Human-doginteraction relies to a large extent on nonverbal communication, and it istherefore plausible that human sensitivity to nonverbal signals affects interactionsbetween human and dogs. In 2014, NonverbalCommunication and Human–Dog Interaction written by Meyer Iben and Forkman,Bjouml;rn investigated possible links between human nonverbal sensitivity,experience with dogs, and the quality of human–dog interactions. In 2013, The Loyalty of a Dog written by Chineseauthor, Mukai Chen pointed out that the only friend in the world who won'tdesert you is you own dog. Whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, a dogwill always be by your side. The Bond BetweenMan and Dog written by Jianping Li in 2018 illustrated that dogs haveplayed an important role in human society since ancient times.

According to theresearches, the dog is an extremely intelligent animal and it has been anindispensable part in human history. Therefore, from philosophical point ofview, protection of animals and respect for life can reflect compassion andsympathy of human beings for the weak, which reflects the moral level of humanbeings. Dialectics tells us that human nature has two sides—good side and badside. Protecting animals and respecting for life, to some extent, promote theharmonious coexistence of people and animals, inspire humanity in a certainsense, eliminate the ugliness of human nature, promote spiritual civilizationof human society, and promote the moral level of constantly improve humansociety as a whole. Especially, showing care and love for pet dogs reflects theconcern and respect for life, which is a kind of noble moral cultivation. Inreal life, if a person loves animals, respects life, then the cultivation ofthis person will not be poor. If everyone in the society has a sense of lovingand caring, holds the concept of the "love of animals, respect forlife", then the society is bound to be a highly-civilized society, ahigh-moral-qualified society. This confirms what Darwin said: caring aboutanimals is a sign of a person's real cultivation and a sign of a highlycivilized society.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

As the oldestdomestic animal, dogs’ intelligence and deep emotional bond with humans havecreated touching stories for thousands of years. Many stories between peopleand dogs have been written and passed down, touching generations of people. Inthis paper the psyche of the dog can be divided into three aspects to analyze--intelligence,loyalty, emotional bond with human. Psyche of dog in different literary visionswill be summarized to make human beings recognize the kindness from dogs, and toreflect the ways to treat dogs even all the animals in the world.

This paper will bedivided into three parts as follows:

The first partmainly introduces dogs, as the oldest domestic animals that accompany humans intheir history of development, and explores the fundamental reasons why dogsshow their kindness to humans through biological and archaeologicalevidence.

The second partmainly analyzes the psyche of dogs in human society reflected in literary worksand emphasizes the importance of dogs in human society through summarizingdifferent themes reflected in different novels. For instance, ADog's Purpose written by W.Bruce Cameron, A Friend Like Henry writtenby Gardner Nuala and A Three Dog Life writtenby Abigail Thomas. This partwill be the key part of this paper, the conclusions and the significance of theresearch.

The last part summarizesthe results of my research, concludes the spiritual inspiration of dogs tohuman beings, and reflection on how to get along with animals. Meanwhile, thispart will reiterate the purpose and significance of this research.

［1］AbigailThomas, A Three Dog Life [M]. Boston:Harcourt, 2007.

［2］AlbuquerqueN, Guo K, Wilkinson A. Dogs Recognize Dogand Human Emotions[J]. BiologyLetters, 2016, 12(1):20150883.