Michelle Obama started the fad when she got little Barry.
When your kids grow up to be decent, responsible adults you feel such a sense of accomplishment. How do you get that with a dog?
They don’t really have much of a choice with the anti-family and anti-competition laws passed over recent decades, the flood of propaganda that preceded them and the spoiled parents who reared them. Traditional marriage is nearly outlawed in effect and has been culturally despised for many years.
The answers may lie in permaculture (study and practice of physical and economic self-sufficiency) and nonpolitical politics (doing what is right and natural without respect to political, business, academic and self-assigned social bosses). The pathological political regulator class has sent our nation into demoralization and economic decline.
Have fun. Enjoy the pet parasites and decline.
Dogs? I’d rather have my cat than either a child or a dog. Dogs you have to walk and pay attention to. Ain’t got no time for that!