A Friend in Need: Creative Prompt

Although most people know it as "Dogs Playing Poker," Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's 1903 painting is actually called A Friend in Need. It is part of a series of 18 paintings of dogs playing cards.

There are a number of famous art pieces in the world that feature dogs, but this is one of the few that so completely humanizes them. They are drinking, smoking, and the 2 at the front of the painting are cheating (hence the painting's title).

This human attitude towards animals is in great contrast ...