You should consider one. They are the best form of companionship. Silent, obedient, unquestioning.

[And fuzzy and cute and kind of fun to play with, but Knives is emphatically not saying those parts. There was something soothing about sitting under a tree and petting a dog. He knows, he'd been doing it a lot the past couple days. In this ...this cage, he'd take what soothing he could get.

The dog seemed to like him anyway, and the name he gave it.]

I wouldn't be so certain. Some things good for one species are toxic for another. I'd rather not accidentally kill it by giving it the wrong thing. I assume other people in this town also have dogs.

[Perhaps there will be prepared dog food already waiting. That would be nice and easy.]