Through his own experience with his dogs, Sigmund Freud analyzed the benefits and reasons as to why humans desire to own animals. For most of his career, Freud believed that dogs were only important when they were seen in a client’s dream. He analyzed that dogs were the “embodiment of difficult relatives or past sexual trauma.” Through his evaluation of dreams, Freud came to the conclusion that “Wild animals signify sensually aroused persons, or further, base impulses, passions.” Thus, if a patient’s dream consisted of a dog with a menacing demeanor lurking in the shadows, Freud would explain that the patient was pushing the sexual event, signified by the wild animal, in this case the dog, to the back of his/her mind, shown by the lurking of
