But when human tools progressed, and agricultural societies became more and more dominant, the cow and ox began to be more essential for man than the dog, and the dog's status began to fall dramatically to where it merely kept watch. Mean while, the ox, out there helping to till the fields, saw its own status leap.
但隨著人類工具進步，漸漸走入農業社會，人們對狗的需求，不像對牛的需求急迫，狗兒地位開始一落千丈，淪落為「看門狗」；反而埋著頭拉犁耕田的牛地位上升。