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This is the first few paragraphs from "The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols," entry on dogs.
There are 7 in depth delicious pages on it's past and history.

During the last hours of my grandmothers life, she saw a dog. She asked, out loud, what it was doing in the house, and how it got inside. She told the dog that we already had a dog, and that he should leave. My mom watched my grandmother while her eyes followed this dog around the house.

It was an "out of the blue," kinda thing.... where my grandma had been sleeping for quite a while, woke up talking about the dog, and went right back to sleep.

The nurse told my mom over the phone that it's classic or common that people see dogs before they die.

Just an observation.