Year of the Dog

From PETsMART

On the Western calendar, the first day of Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year) starts January 29, 2006--by the Chinese calendar it's year 4704--and if your birth year is 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, or 2006, you're born under the sign of the Dog.

According to the Chinese zodiac, the Dog is one of the most likeable signs and symbolizes future prosperity. Characteristics of people under the Dog sign include being:

• honest, loyal, trustworthy, and fair
• able to master whatever interests them
• good leaders
• excellent listeners
• discerning
• physically active
• a champion of the underdog

Further, people under the Dog sign are considered somewhat selfish, stubborn, and eccentric. Money and status do not matter much to the Dog, caring for the well-being of family and friends is of greater importance.

Dog sign people also have an attentive nature and strong quest for justice that makes them take control of a situation, even when it doesn't involve them directly.

With the Dog's ambition to please, anxiety may ensue if not thought well of.

People falling under the Dog sign tend to be compatible with those born in the years of the Horse, Tiger, and Rabbit signs.

Some famous Dogs:

• Socrates
• Voltaire
• Mother Theresa
• Golda Meir
• Benjamin Franklin
• Sir Winston Churchill
• Itzhak Rabin
• President George W. Bush
• Former president Bill Clinton
• Herbert Hoover
• George Gershwin
• Norman Mailer
• Judy Garland
• Elvis Presley
• Rodney Dangerfield
• Liza Minelli
• Sophia Loren
• Carol Burnett
• David Bowie
• Charles Bronson
• Jennifer Lopez
• Michael Jackson
• Cher
• Madonna
• Sylvester Stallone
• Prince
• Mariah Carey
• Claudia Schiffer
• Andre Agassi