Dog

Loyal, warm, tireless champion of the underdog to the end

Even as cancer ravaged his body in 2011, he mounted a campaign of breathtaking energy and optimism, refusing to abandon the people counting on him — a defining act of selfless devotion that is the very marrow of the Dog personality. Jack Layton's entire political life was an exercise in canine loyalty: he championed affordable housing for the homeless long before it was politically fashionable, and his final letter to Canadians — urging hope over despair with the words "Love is better than anger" — reads like the parting words of a faithful companion who never stopped believing in the pack. The Dog in Feinson's system is defined by warmth, tireless advocacy for the vulnerable, and an instinctive solidarity with the underdog, qualities Layton embodied so completely that his death felt, to millions, like losing a trusted and irreplaceable friend.