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>They were called "puppies" because they looked like street dogs surrounding a bowl of milk.
Funny you should say that, because the teachings of Christianity is likened to milk for babes that aren't ready for solid food yet.

Strongly implying the parables are allegorical, so as to be easily digestible by the young lambs, and that there's deeper interpretations known only to the initiated.

Jews, like Saul the Pharisee (author of half the NT) would call that "Midrashic interpretation".

Some argue the entire NT is nothing but a parable (ie not literal) that was created out of Midrashic interpretation of other Hebrew scripture.