Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman. Good signs (№ 372879)

There are dogs, which at first sight remind you that, despite thousands of years of artificial selection, any dog away from a wolf not more than two minutes. They are coming at you slowly and deliberately - the call of the ancestors in the flesh, fangs yellow, from a mouth stinks, and their owners cheerful shout from a safe distance, "he's a Charmer, just move it if it will bother", and in the green of his eyes is splashing scarlet fire campfires of the Pleistocene...