I am very saddened that you feel this way.
I think if you get a puppy, you will grow some and you will have a best friend for life. Since you are a little bit more intelligent than a dog, it falls to you to make sure that both your needs are met.
Once you get to know a dog well, you will begin to know how deeply ingrained a dog's pack instinct is and witnessing pack behavior first hand you may come to know that you are not really a master, but a leader of their pack. They do worship the leaders of their packs, even lick their leaders' junk and assholes, but only so long as that leader continues to do everything the other members of the pack need.
Dogs ARE faithful. You have to kind of fuck up to lose a dog's faith. The same goes for any leader of a dog pack.
Stop trying to make them humans and projecting your human horrors upon them. They are dogs. They are fine living as a part of a pack.
Don't you see that it doesn't matter? It's not the effect on the dog, but rather the improper
relationship for the human?
After thinking a bit more about your previous post, I do get your point a little better. I can not find a way to agree fully, except in some extreme cases, like possibly "coming under the spell" of a loving dog could contribute to complicating day by day management of some of the difficulties inherent to narcissism.
I feel that what you fear might be true in only some of the more troubled individuals, though.
I still wonder if a great dog might offer a small trickle stream to harmlessly dump some of those narcissistic tendencies with very little recourse to consistent management and no harm to the dog.
I feel that most people can handle being within the "love dome" of a dog without any ill effects.
Narcissism would be the exception.
Sorry, pal. I may not have looked at your post carefully enough to respond to your meaning, as I already have demonstrated a tendency to do many times on this board.
I tend to want to help and sometimes, even without knowing the whole story.