The only pet I can own in this world is a dog, I love dogs. It's how they become family over time or how caring they are, I don't know, but I really love dogs from childhood. We grew up together like family. I grew up to see dogs living in my house, my father's compound, not even one but many. I remember that many refer to our house as the "dog house" 😂 whenever they want to describe our house to someone, especially little children.
So our house is easily recognized because in our area then, we are the ones who own many dogs. People are always scared of entering our house because of dogs, and I always tell people that dogs don't attack without a reason, unless dogs see that you are scared or you have something harmful, they won't chase you. Our dog has never attacked anyone except a woman that was scared and started running away immediately she sighted our dog; she started running, and our dog chased her because of that. When you see a dog and run, they will think you are dangerous or harmful.
I love many things about dogs, and one of them is how they follow you around. Anything we are going out, especially in our area, they will keep following you still you reach your destination and even follow you back home just like siblings. Even sometimes they will follow my mom's car and keep running after the car till they can't catch up. Whenever they hear our car horn or motorcycle, they start wagging their tails just like a sibling that misses each other because they go out. And that is why I always call dogs family, with time they become family within months of living together.
Dogs are very clean, unlike other pets. Once you show them where they are trained to use a specific area for their business, they'll stick to it and avoid soiling the compound. They don't litter the compound with their feces or shit. They don't just put their mouth inside any plate; only plates that are assigned for them to use are what they will always use.
Dogs are very protective. I could remember a scenario that happened when we were young; it's in the midnight, our dogs started barking, they are barking so loud and continuously that we have to wake up and look what's wrong with them.
On getting outside, my dad found out that there was a snake outside, and we were able to kill the snake that day because of our dogs, who knows if they didn't bark that day or if there were no dogs, one person may have gone outside that midnight to ease themselves and the snake may have bitten the person, but thank God for our dogs.
So dogs are a good pet, not even one scenario, I can remember another one too. This black ant has flooded our compound that night, our dogs made us know something has entered our compound when they started barking. In fact, dogs are a good pet I will always love to have; they are not just pets but family.