I'd be eternally grateful and actually wanting to have a dog along if they were cool looking Rottweilers instead of that dumb looking mongrel/sheepdog thing. Sorry I hope that doesn't offend anyone (particular the designer if he/she happens to see this) but, it is how I feel. On the brighter side though, What an AWESOME game. In my opinion, best RPG EVER released (so far) MMO or otherwise. In fact I think it is so good that even as a single player it beats any MMO RPG I have yet seen.