Tiger and Dog Compatibility

Tiger and Dog are easy allies and stubborn opponents. Both are brave, both protective, both allergic to dishonesty. In a crisis they function as a unit without discussing it. The friction is that they are loyal to slightly different things at the same moment. Tiger is loyal to their people. Dog is loyal to a standard. When someone Tiger loves is in the wrong, Dog says so, and Tiger experiences that as betrayal rather than integrity. Dog, in turn, reads Tiger's defence of a friend as a failure of principle. Both are being consistent with their own code, which is why the argument is so hard to settle. It settles when the two of them agree, in advance, that loyalty includes honesty about the people they protect. Tiger can hear a criticism of a friend without calling it disloyalty. Dog can raise it without sounding like a prosecutor. Given that, this pairing is unusually solid and unusually safe to be in.