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There's a lot of subtext with Gambino's dog concerning Guts relationship to Gambino. Guts first real fight against hopeless odds is against a pack of wolves immediately after being cast out of Gambino's camp. Casca later calls him a mad dog or something approximating that. Guts leaves the Falcons to find his own path instead of being Griffith's loyal dog of war (my interpretation given the context). Most recently we see Guts represented as a dog dragging Casca's coffin in her dream.
I'm not a great writer so I would stumble through a more elaborate explanation, but I'll try if this isn't convincing. These are the ones that have stuck out to me, I'd have to go look for more examples, but it seems fitting that Guts' "spirit animal" is the canine.
There's a lot of subtext with Gambino's dog concerning Guts relationship to Gambino. Guts first real fight against hopeless odds is against a pack of wolves immediately after being cast out of Gambino's camp. Casca later calls him a mad dog or something approximating that. Guts leaves the Falcons to find his own path instead of being Griffith's loyal dog of war (my interpretation given the context). Most recently we see Guts represented as a dog dragging Casca's coffin in her dream.
I'm not a great writer so I would stumble through a more elaborate explanation, but I'll try if this isn't convincing. These are the ones that have stuck out to me, I'd have to go look for more examples, but it seems fitting that Guts' "spirit animal" is the canine.