You'll never have a friend that loves you like your dog.
I had (at the same time) a 100 lb. Black Lab and a 125 lb. Akita/Shepard mix, both males and neutered.
They were the most loving dogs I ever had. Always in a good mood and would die fighting for me or any member of the family.
When my daughter was 14, she told me one afternoon after school, someone rang the doorbell and said it was the police. We didn't own cell phones at that time.
When she opened the door it was not the police, but an older teenage boy that she did not know standing on the other side of the glass storm door.
He took one look at the big dogs standing on either side of her and ran.
The boys got rib eyes for dinner that night.