The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
"Hush, Doggy, hush," consoles Moon. "Snoop not for disaster but focus on your style, your doggystyle which I find beautiful."
Dog: I find you more beautiful. More beautiful than the gumusservi.
Moon: Then stop barking platitudes and lick me in the water. Stars knows I'm already drenched!
Dog: …
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
"Hush you! Never say that again in the ear-shot of The Mistress or she will shoot you ear off, offer it to Herr Hereafter and you know what that portents so from now on, best be a moondog that barks up to Mistress Mani for your own good for deaf is heaven to the pleas of the earth. It might as well be mute but the moon is a different story. After all, the moon is Artemis and Artemis is too beautiful for heaven to ignore. That applies to her hunting dogs too so friend, how about we Bach together.
You (the dawg in question) refuse but not because you cannot bark but because you prefer the bark be from a Wolfgang.