Until I read this piece at TCS, I was not aware that terriers practiced law. Yes, this is the Chinese Year of the Dog - whatever that means - but in my house, as in Sally Baliunas' house, it is always the Year of the Dog.
Terriers don't really do it for me, but to each his own. Dogs are the best kind of people, whatever the make and model. Under the surface, they are all Grey Wolves, apparently, just as all men are killers beneath their civilized skin.
Image: The ancestor of the Chihuahua - the Grey Wolf, which once lived from Egypt to North America, and which happily survives in small numbers in America.