Got any pets?
I love dogs too but I'm a total cat person. I feed cats in the streets all the time, and have a couple cats I "adopted" from the streets. I dream about getting a Scottish Fold someday (they're terribly cute) but the reason why their ears are folded is a genetic thing, a cartilage deficiency as far as I know. I don't like the idea of buying or selling animals much, so I'll find someone who has a Scottish Fold give birth to kittens.
I also had hamsters in college but that's a whole different story.