Chinese Zodiac

The Dog   

The dog is eleventh on the Chinese Zodiac. Some of the dog's characteristics are honest, intelligent, straightforward, loyal, sense of justice and fair play, attractive, amicable (which means having a spirit of friendliness), unpretentious, sociable, open-minded, idealistic, moralistic, practical, affectionate, sensitive, and easy going. The dog can also be cynical, lazy, cold, judgmental, pessimistic (which means pertaining to or characterized by pessimism, which means the tendency to expect the worst and see the worst in all things), worrier, stubborn, and quarrelsome (which means given to or characterized by quarreling, which means having an angry argument or disagreement).

Even though you my be born in the year of the dog, you may not have these characteristics. These characteristics are based on the dog. In the story of the great race, the dog was one of the best swimmers in the race except that the dog stayed in the water a little longer because it needed a bath. 

Here are some of the years of the dog:  If you are born in any of these years, you are a dog.
1910, 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030, 2042
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