Anglo-Saxon Proto-English Manuscripts (995 AD): “God lufode middan-eard swa, dat he seade his an-cennedan sunu, dat nan ne forweorde de on hine gely ac habbe dat ece lif."
Someone said it surely must have been a male dog because he went straight to what he wanted, got it and was leaving the store. A female would have gotten distracted and would have stopped to look at everything in the store before she got to what she came for. Funny!!!