What the first dogs had, like the last wolves, was what I call dogginess. Dogginess is the essence of dogdom writ large. Clearly the first dogs had dogginess, or we would not recognize them as related to modern dogs, but they certainly were not dogs as we know them now.

Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

Queen Elizabeth to the king of Scots:/ "When the first blast of a strange, unused, and seld heard of sound had pierced my ears, I supposed that flying fame, who with swift quills oft paceth with the worst, had brought report of some untruth, but when too too many records in your open parliament were witnesses of such pronounced words, not more to my disgrace than to your dishonor, who did forget that (above all other regard) a prince's word ought utter nought of any, much less of a king, than such as to which truth might say Amen: But you, neglecting all care of yourself, what danger of reproach, besides somewhat else, might light upon you, have chosen so unseemly a theme to charge your only careful friend withal, of such matter as (were you not amazed in all senses) could not have been expected at your hands; of such imagined untruths as were never thought of in our time; and do wonder what evil spirits have possessed you, to set forth so infamous devices void of any show of truth.

Representational art appears in two major categories: rupestral art (as in the paintings of the Palaeolithic caves) and mobiliary art (also called mobile or portable art).