nope, don't get it, and i'm gonna be 48 soon, so there's that
people like dogs for the same reasons they like lambos and fancy houses and wearing whatever trendy thing everyone else is
nobody actually likes the barking and the shit and the constant nagging for walks or the pissing and demanding to be allowed to go eat a cat
nobody really likes that
nobody
you all get some kind of fucked up social reinforcement out of it and that's all
it could just as easily be porn or rotting carcasses or idiotic AI images, it's the same shit