MEET WOOLA

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The calot is something of an equivalent of a Martian canine. 
Calots chase down their prey on ten powerful stout legs, and latch onto it with their multiple rows of hooked teeth. 
Calots are often trained by the red and green Martians and are fiercely loyal, 
bonding with their owners after the same manner as earthly canines.
The most famous calot is Woola, who remained 
loyal to John Carter after saving him from a Martian ape.

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WOOLA, AS DESCRIBED BY HIS FRIEND AND MASTER
-- JOHN CARTER -- IN ERB'S MARTIAN TRILOGY: PRINCESS
* I was convinced that the brute loved me; I had seen more evidences of affection in him than in any other Martian animal, man or beast, and I was sure that gratitude for the acts that had twice saved his life would more than outweigh his loyalty to the duty imposed upon him by cruel and loveless masters.
* . . .  the poor old fellow was so glad to see me that I thought he would devour me, his head split from ear to ear, showing his three rows of tusks in his hobgoblin smile.
* Putting my arms about his neck I pressed my cheek close to his, nor am I ashamed that I did it, nor of the tears that came to my eyes as I thought of his love for me.
* Woola drew a great amount of unwelcome attention to me, since the huge brute belonged to a species which is never domesticated by the red men.
* Woola--faithful, loving Woola.
WARLORD
* As large as a Shetland pony, with hideous head and frightful fangs, he was indeed an awesome spectacle, as he crept after me on his ten short, muscular legs; but to me he was the embodiment of love and loyalty.
* The great, savage brute, agile as a cat, crept after me.
* A soft purr, like that of a great cat, indicated that Woola understood . . .
* Woola had been growling and bristling close to my side. Occasionally he would look up into my face with a low, pleading whine . . .  where he stood emitting his coughing bark
* Imagine, if you can, a huge grizzly with ten legs armed with mighty talons and an enormous froglike mouth splitting his head from ear to ear, exposing three rows of long, white tusks. Then endow this creature of your imagination with the agility and ferocity of a half-starved Bengal tiger and the strength of a span of bulls, and you will have some faint conception of Woola in action. Before I could call him off he had crushed Lakor into a jelly with a single blow of one mighty paw, and had literally torn the other thern to ribbons; yet when I spoke to him sharply he cowed sheepishly as though he had done a thing to deserve censure and chastisement. Never had I had the heart to punish Woola during the long years that had passed since that first day upon Mars.
* Martian calots are omnivorous
* Woola had fought with me through the battle of the previous day, true to the instincts and training of a Martian war dog, great numbers of which are often to be found with the savage green hordes of the dead sea bottoms.