The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.
– William Shakespeare
King Lear, Act 3, Scene 6. Lear is imagining that even his own pet dogs are turning against him. After his two daughters’ betray him, he thinks in his deteriorating mental condition that his dogs are betraying him too. The dogs may not even exist, except in his mind.