Cats are the other white meat!
Try a Maine Coon, they are the dogs of the cat world. Act more like a dog than a cat. Answer to their name and just as loving as any dog.
Have had both dogs and cats. My Maine Coon got along well with the dogs and the dogs got along well with her.
By the way she would back up and 80 pound lab and 80 pound black and tan coon hound. Took no guff from anyone or anything.
Came home one day and Meanness was on rail of the deck eying a red tail hawk on the privacy fence and hawk was eying her. Mexican stand off. Toughest 7 lb cat you have ever seen.
Cats are the other white meat!