The animal itself
The first domesticated animal, at least 15 000 years ago and possibly twice that. Dogs read human gaze direction and pointing — a skill wolves raised by humans do not develop, so it is bred in rather than learned.Symbol only · 900 searches a month
Dog
The dog is read as loyalty as a chosen bond rather than an obligation. It carries no birth-date range in either calendar we cover, so no date can assign it to you — it is a symbol people choose rather than one they are given.
Which calendar assigns it, and when
Date range
none — not in either calendar
Searched
900 a month · rank 21 of 39
Neither calendar assigns dates to it, so any site that gives you them for dog has invented them. What the two calendars do cover →
What it stands for, and where that came from
Loyalty as a chosen bond rather than an obligation.
Honoured in: Anubis guiding the dead; Cerberus at the gate; one of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs; Xolotl in Aztec belief accompanying souls across the water.
Counted across all 39 animals
This one has no birth dates at all
22/39
animals here carry a birth-date range. The other 17 are symbols
people choose, not ones a date assigns.
4.7%
of the year — 17 days out of 365 —
is where the two calendars name the same animal. The rest of the time they
disagree.
21st
most looked-up of the 39 animals we cover.
No date can hand you this animal, because neither calendar lists it — which is worth knowing before paying for a reading that claims otherwise. How the two calendars differ →
Searched about as often
Dog is ranked 21 of 39 by search demand. Of all 39 animals here, 22 sit in one of the two birth-date calendars and 17 are searched as symbols only.