As a Dalmatian, there are those who find it hard to imagine that my breed (due to the need for plenty of exercise) could ever have been cooped up on the ark.  Of course, I call this nothing more than jealousy or perhaps, more accurately, "doggy bigotry."  After all, we Dalmatians have been around for quite some time.  Why even some of those old Egyptian humans hammered out some images that look a little like me.

But the fact is, putting all pupping aside, each of us must ultimately trace our pedigree back to a single pair of pooches.  The two of our kind who were in the belly of that great boat made of boards.  That's right!  It's a particular couple that carried all of our canine characteristics that deserves the credit.

The fact is, some breeds (at least as we identify them today), haven't really been around all that long.  Many of us are quite different - yet in one way we are the same.  Some of our breeds are young - even in dog years.  As John C. Whitcomb, Jr. wrote a couple decades ago, "It is apparent that God created certain kinds of animals with an even greater potentiality for variation than is true of mankind.  For example, during the past few centuries as many as two hundred breeds of dogs have been developed, as different from each other as the Great Dane and the Dachshund, but they all belong to the same created kind" (The Early Earth, pp. 77, 80).

So, in an indirect way we were all aboard that floating zoo.  Yep, that goes for greyhounds, beagles, bulldogs, and whippets.  This should make us howl for joy.  After all, ". . . the 'dog' was God's idea.  He not only created the dog, but He also preserved it from being destroyed by the flood.  Yes, God made sure there was room for a pair of pooches on the ark in Noah's day" (Devotions for Dog Lovers by Tom C. Rakow, p. 55).

Who was on the Ark?  You might just argue that we all were!