I live in the country with most dog ownership rate, less fertility rates, and highest divorce rate. Treating dogs like a substitute for kids is a symptom of a degenerate society.

Leftards in Spain call their dogs "perrhijos" which basically mean dog-babies. They believe these subhuman creatures can understand human language and they talk to them like if they were kids. And of course, they never discipline them because they think the dog is their equal and it would be animal abuse to raise your voice when the dog does something wrong. The streets smell like shit, specially in our hot and dry summer. You can't properly rest in your own home if you have the bad luck of having a dog barking 24/7 next to you, and the police won't do anything because there are dozen of thousands of dogs in any given city. I went from loving well trained dogs to despite them because 99% of them are completely savage beasts. At the very least I'm glad that pitbulls and other big dogs aren't that common in our cities, but a big dog almost bite my daughter once (I carried a knife and I was ready to stab the critter in the neck).