35 Dog Memes for People Raising Cute Canine Kids

Ayala Sorotsky • Writer and Editor

May 9, 2026 7:30 AM EDT

How can you explain the joys of raising a dog to a person who has never had one?

There's an explicit kind of happiness to raising a dog at home, as part of your family. It's something that's very difficult to explain to someone who has never adopted a dog in their life. What can you say, really? "It's like having a constantly happy person around you", "It's as if your BFF would live with you but couldn't exactly speak your language anymore", "Imagine you have a son, who's also your brother, but also a close childhood friend". We think these sentences are accurate, but would these statements actually explain this to a dogless person?

We know that the human-doggo friendship goes back thousands of years - they literally walk with us, hand in paw, for millennia - but it doesn't mean that every person on Earth knows the endless love that is raising a dog. It's like trying to condense years upon years of an intertwined bond into a single, simple explanation. Is it really possible? Because we assume they know about the happy barks, the belly rubs, and the excitement tail wags. But do they know?

We think that if you want to explain to your dogless friends about how happy you are to have a dog, talking about the happiness alone isn't enough. Because, obviously, like many things in life, not everything is happy-happy joy-joy - you have to pick up the 6 AM walk poopies or go to the vet. And that's just part of the reality of raising a dog. But talking about the absolute bond a dog has to their person is the secret sauce.

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Before adopting a dog, a person should always consider the parameters of what fits them. There are many dogs to be adopted, but most people go for the default - a puppy. But many times, people adopt a cute puppy not knowing that it entails way more than just having the cutie patootie parts. This is how memes like this one are made - people don't know they could adopt a mini T-Rex when all they wanted was a puppy. Well… puppies are predator dinosaurs, if you don't put in the effort. Just like kids. People tend to forget puppies are literally doggo kids.
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