The Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership, also known as The Ten Commandments From a Pet's Point of View or simply Ten Commandments For Dog Owners, is a set of pet ownership rules. It was created in 1993 by Stan Rawlinson, and is written from the point of view of a dog.[1][2]
This set of rules was used as the basis of the 2008 Japanese film 10 Promises to My Dog.[2]
The commandments convey the dog's perspective to elicit empathy from humans in their role as owner. They are written from the dog's viewpoint and they allude to principles assumed important to dogs. Commandments convey ideas of trust, tolerance, anger, hurt, pain, and forgiveness amongst others.