Why do people like cats? Cats don't even really need you.
Dogs are at least needy and love attention.
If I was a Dog

Akita - I love them
I used to have an Akita mixed with White German Shepard. Beautiful dog and he took care of me. Couldn't nobody do nothing to me when he was around, not even my other dog. I also had a boxer mix. I had to put them both to sleep in 86' because they contracted distemper. I bought a rottweiler in 96, but then my musical schedule got ridiculous and I couldn't give him the time to raise and train him properly so I wound up taking him back to his brothers and sisters. His father was 150 lbs. I hated to take that dog back.
I have been contemplating another dog. I'm between a rottweiler, a cane corso, a bull mastiff, a minature pinscher, or a Jack Russell terrier.
As for cats, cats have atitudes. I can't deal with that. Not from an animal.