Reply To: Adopt a dog. It’s a chesed.

Dogs are emotionally shallow. Intelligent people have cats.

Also, the Talmud clearly dislikes dogs:
Yoma 53b
Yoma 83a
Yevamos 59b
Kesuvos 41b
Bava Kamma 15b
Bava Kamma 79b

And favors cats:
Shabbos 128b
Pesachim 112b