Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Sophia and Denny Sargent, authors of the new Book of Dog Magic. We have been dog lovers our whole lives, and have found many remarkable myths and folklore about them. As spring emerges, the one myth that really comes to mind to share is the "First Dog" myth told by several Native American tribes. Not only does this myth get to the heart of the special and very ancient relationship between human beings and the dogs that help us in so many ways, it also reminds us that they are our partners, not our servants. Many researchers believe that without the help of wolves that bonded with ancient prehistoric peoples, we might not have survived as a