Desmond on the other hand is very patient as he whistles quietly and waits for the puppy to get curious enough to shuffle over to him. "Dogs can be trained, obviously, very well, but they're also companions so they want to be treated like them." So it's a bond and almost a friendship on top of a good use like hunting, protection, or fetching. That's how he saw it at least. He went around seeing all the pets but not getting one himself.

"Me? No, just living around people who have them." He smiles at the puppy and lets it smell his hand and his arm if it made it feel better. "I lived in a big city, which some people pets in, but it's a pain in the ass. And expensive." Desmond was just a bartender, and he was always worried he'd have to pick up and run if someone found him. "I thought about looking at the animals around here. There's communal pets, and maybe I could coax one into preferring me, but I don't know." Maybe he will. He clearly wants to.