>>42167869Yes, all the time, throughout classical and contemporary literature, mythology, and casual conversation, things other than dogs are referred to as dogs because they're in the same family. Hell, why do we even have words like "wolf", "dog", "jackal", or "fox" when they're all just dogs at the end of the day. It's totally not as if the domesticated wolf subspecies is the only animal referred to by the word "dog". If it WERE actually a wolf, you might have a point.
