April 29, 2006, Saturday talking dog blogging (take 10)
And so we find ourselves starting to reach down to characters like Barnyard Dawg, protector of the chicken-house from such predators as right wing chickenhawk Henery Hawk, and Southern blowhard rooster (my guess is a Zell Miller-type DINO) Foghorn Leghorn. Some of you have suggested that I consider Snoop Doggy Dogg for this feature, but I have learned that he is not a talking dog at all, but a rather troubled human being. Hence, the rap on him is he ain't a dog... sorry Snoop fans.
The thing with Barnyard Dawg is, like other Warner Brothers talking dogs such as Sam the Sheepdog (pictured with his co-worker Ralph, who is better known as Wile E. Coyote), Dawg is very smart, very effective at what he does... indeed, the only classic Warner Brothers character more downright intelligent than the talking dogs might be uber-character Bugs Bunny himself (not merely the greatest of all cartoon characters, but indeed, the greatest of all anthropomorphised animals)...
And of course, all talking dogs are, by definition, more intelligent than talking (or at least chattering) asses, such as the one profiled at my post at American Street this week. But then, that's why you're here in the first place...