We love to know about artists and their pets. I think this is a collective imagination thing, where we sort of want to understand a personality through the animal an artist chooses to surround themselves with. Look, I am a cat and a dog person, so sometimes I can’t even understand my own push and pull of animal preference. But an artist, the greats of our time, seem to have made the animal of their choice part of their practice, and dogs make a great companino in art history.