Doggie dog what now

This is about dogs, how all my friends are getting them, and where the future lies.

So a few years ago friend PT got his very beloved dog, and promptly opened an instagram account or him. The posts from the doggy account are more frequent than from his main 'human' account. We gave him a bit of shit for loving his dog like his baby, but he does really really care about the cute creature: he's paid to put the little guy in dog hotels, and also spent a lot of money to take him to Nepal on an international flight after getting him sedated.

As I've mentioned quite a few times by now, friend SK also got a dog, whom he loves very dearly. He won't let her out of his sight for more than fifteen minutes.

And that's just the beginning of it. Friend AB, who has a large plot of land in Boston also got a new doggy, a pandemic pet as they've been called in recent days. That's in addition to hers and R's brood of chicken and other domestic pets they've had since the last year. Which means they can now be called a 'mini farm' and it would be technically correct.

The pandemic has made people realize that they need company in life, and being locked up in the same space with another human being can often feel like being imprisoned no matter how close you are to them otherwise, dogs and other pets have come to be seen as a safe alternative, or addition, to human company. Because the universe is essentially meaningless void of mass and nothingness until there's something to give meaning to it, and the existence of another being who is so dependent on you for their survival turns you into a super-being, a god of some kind, a caregiver whose existence is justified, if only to preserve life of a different being. TO put it differently, company is what gives life meaning, and dogs are great company.

I want to get to dogs in the future, when I'm in a position to have a house with a decent amount of land. Two huskies, or a huskie and a labrador. Two because even though modern dog breeds are okay living all by themselves, they've traditionally been pack animals, and when there's a pair I don't feel the need to be near them and give them company 24/7. I can just be responsible for assuring their safety and survival, and they can take care of the rest. They can be independent doggos in their own right.

That point in time may soon come, or it might be a bit, but I definitely need some land for myself before making that commitment. Forcing an animal that's so impressed by nature and the world around us, into a few rooms sounds cruel to me.