A Tail Told by JD

A Translation of English Dogs to Southern Dawgs:

(English) German Shepherd Dog
(Southern) Poh-leece Dawg.

(English) Poodle
(Southern) Circus Dawg.

(English) St. Bernard
(Southern) "Thank Gawd, Here Comes The Whiskey Dawg."

(English) Doberman Pinscher
(Southern-TWO versions) Bad A## Dawg, or Dobimin Pinches.

(English) Beagle
(Southern) Rabbit Dawg.

(English) Rottweiler
(Southern) Bad A## AND Mean As He## Dawg. Good dawg to guard the still.

(English) Yellow Lab
(Southern) Ol' Yeller Dawg.

(English) Black Lab
(Southern) Duck fetchin' Dawg.

(English) Greyhound 
(Southern) Greased Lightnin' Dawg.

(English) Malinois 
(Southern) Another kind of Poh-leece Dawg.

(English) Blue Ticks, Red Bones, etc.
(Southern) Prize Coon Dawgs.

(English) Pekinese
(Southern) Mop Dawg.

(English) Chinese Crested
(Southern) Nekkid Dawg.

(English) Dachshund 
(Southern) Wienie Dawg.

(English) Siberian Husky
(Southern) Sled-Pullin' Dawg.

(English) Bouvier, Komondor
(Southern) "What The He## Kinda Dawg Is That?"

(English) Great Dane, Mastiff
(Southern) Danged BIG Dawg.

(English) Any dog that raids the hen house
(Southern) Egg-Suckin' Dawg.

(English) Any lazy dog
(Southern) Good fer nothin' Dawg.

(English) Any dog that's died and been buried and gone to Rainbow Bridge
(Southern) Best danged Dawg I ever had.

--JD

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