Dogs

In the Urantia Book

in Miocene and Oligocene in Europe the ancestor of the canine family evolved, soon giving rise to many species of small dogs. 61:2.7 61:3.13
Toward the close of the ice age the majority of dogs and other animal species were extinct in North America. 61:5.7
At first dogs only howled, but later on they learned to bark. 69:7.4
dog was first adopted by blue man 81:2.11
it was the first animal to be domesticated. It was used for food, hunting, transportation, and companionship 66:5.5 69:7.4
The dog was the first domesticated animal and was held in high esteem both as such and as food. 89:5.16
The employment of watchdogs made it first possible for the whole clan to sleep at night. 69:7.4 84:3.10
It was believed that dogs could detect the approach of ghosts, and that they gave warning by howling 87:6.11
The death of Abel became known to his parents when his dogs brought the flocks home without their master. 76:2.7
the dog came to be the sacred animal of the Parsees. 88:1.4

Jesus and Ganid had enjoyed playing with a very intelligent shepherd dog, and Ganid wanted to know if the dog had a soul, if it had a will. Jesus replied that the dog cannot know God and cannot enjoy a spiritual experience. 130:2.8
It was the dogs that caused the swine to fall off a cliff in the event of Jesus' supposed healing of a demoniac in Kheresa 151:6.6
Norana, the Syrian woman who wanted Jesus to heal her daughter, compared herself to a dog that wants to eat the crumbs that fall from the table of the privileged, something that caused Jesus to praise seeing such great faith 156:1.5
Jesus said: “Present not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample your gems under foot and turn to rend you”. 140:3.18

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

Legend about demon-possessed pigs 151:6.6 — Mt 8:30-33; Mk 5:11-16; Lk 8:33-34.
Even dogs eat crumbs 156:1.5 — Mt 15:24-27; Mk 7:27-28.
Blind lead blind 140:3.18 — Mt 15:14; Lk 6:39. *Cast not pearls to swine*: Mt 7:6.