Interesting indeed! I stayed once at a farmhouse in the mountains of Spain. It was my first time living outside of town, and being extremely unfamiliar with guiding myself on the trails without road signs, I got hopelessly lost. Fortunately before nightfall the farmhouses' dogs came searching for me and led me back home.

Later the owners said the dogs didn't exactly search for me, they were running wild in the mountains and I happened to chance upon them. We humans are the ones who put our own romantic thoughts upon the dogs; they just do what they do, we read too much into it, that's all.