My Castorp, a Whippet, thinks we are there to love him and give him food and play, and he thinks he is there to protect us. (Us: I, the guv'nor; my wife; our twin daughters.). When we all walk him together, he eyes the streets for dangers for his family, When I am out alone with him, on a long walk, it's more the other way round. Either way, if there was the slightest actual danger, he'd be hiding in a corner! Bless him.
Are we dogs to him? Does he think he is he a four-legged version of us? I don't know, probably not. He just thinks we are right for him, and he is right for us. He doesn't understand why we don't give him more good things, but he's not keeping track of credits and debits and just loves us as we are.
He doesn't like any family cuddling that excludes him. He will do his "why am I not part of this?" growl until he is part of it. So it's pack, I guess.
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