God Had A Dog
Folklore of the Dog
Maria Leach
Rutgers University Press
1961


    "The creator was going around in the world creating
and "he took along a dog."  So says the creation myth of the Kato Indians of California.  Nowhere in the story is any mention made of the creator creating the dog-evidently because he *had* a dog. Perhaps among the Katos any idea of a man going around without a dog was not only unheard of but also unthinkable."
                                                          -Maria Leach