As a collective society we do not deserve dogs.
I understand your sentiment, but I offer the counterpoint that we do deserve dogs because we literally made them — not in a top down, designing as if we were God kind of way, but through millennia of living alongside them as companions and partners. The domestication of dogs likely started with a mutually beneficial relationship, in which wolves could benefit from warmth and food whilst living in community with humans, and those humans gained hunting partners who would protect human settlements as their own.
In the wild, apex predators often try to avoid conflict with each other, due to the high likelihood that even if you win the fight, you may come away with significant injuries. Dogs are the culmination of what happens when two apex predators go one step further than that and go “actually, let’s be friends”, and I think that’s really cool.
Went to Puy du Fou in France (English language link) a few weeks ago and saw their Vikings show (among others). It was a lot of stunts and they had a couple stunts where dogs took down the invaders, and it definitely seemed like there were a few wagging tails in there. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were having fun and were happy because they were doing a good job.
PSA: this park is controversial for its biased representation of history (mainly pro-catholic and anti-strangers, erasing any diversity from their stories). There are also questions over treatmant of workers and animals. In French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puy_du_Fou#Controverses


