Twitter account Can You Pet The Dog? (opens in new tab) has become so powerful, it’s now essentially a gaming purity test: if a game has a dog, you better be able to pet it, or else. It’s inspired pat-providing updates, (opens in new tab) mods (opens in new tab), and a surge in new games making sure that you could put a virtual hand on a virtual snout to make a virtual pup happy. It’s a grave injustice that there isn’t an equally popular account dedicated to sharing the cat love. If there was, maybe we wouldn’t have to be the ones asking: why doesn’t Cyberpunk 2077 allow you to pet your cat?
