Yup, I was right - the crumbs.
Not exactly a glowing endorsement.
Actually, it’s a compliment.
Because the Jews of that day rejected Jesus’s message, the message went to the despised and disregarded people of his day, and just as dogs will lap up every table scrap they can get, so too did this woman recognize her Master.
I don’t think it was an accident that people and dogs have such a relationship for millennia. I think dogs were given to us to teach us how to respond to our Master; bravely, boldly, lovingly and faithfully, as the Syro-Phoenician woman responded to her Master.