Do dogs and other pets from earth exist in the far future?

when mankind goes to space, colonizing planets and shit, dogs will die out. they are useless. are there dogs in star wars? warhammer? anything? anyway, any futuristic space setting with dogs and other pets from earth is for the mentally challenged

Even today most people keep pets just for the fun of it.

>are there dogs in star wars?
No, even though on several occasions they could have been rather useful.

There are only two pets allowed in 40k: flying skull and flying dead baby. There are hounds, but those are heavily cyborg modified and only used as a tool by the space cops.

>are there dogs in star wars
Jewbacca.

He is rather smart for a 'dog', so not really.

>star wars
Droids (astromechs in particular) might as well be dog companions, just somewhat smarter and with more utility.
Also there are some races and characters that have dog equivalents.
I think Gungans basically had this amphibious dog creatures. Jabba had that bat thing.

Dogs are pretty smart for a tets, so go fuck urself, catlover.

I like to think we'd uplift some of our more promising friends and take them with us, just to spite Mother Nature a bit more.

This. I ran a scifi setting where the galactic human government outlawed most genetic and cybernetic research on humans (for fear that various different worlds and colonies would each branch out into different human subsets until the human race turned into a bunch of new different competing species) so some people moved over their enhancement research to other animals instead.

Apes are too close to humans, so the research on them never gets authorized. Dolphins are all dead already due to climate change. So we did dogs instead. Genetically engineered smart dogs that, after they reach a certain age and maturity, undergo massive cybersurgery where their brain gets ripped out, plugged with cyberware to bring them all the way up to human-tier intellect, and plugged into life supporting robot bodies filled with artificial organs.

The dogs are, after an adjustment period, weirdly okay with this. They can still talk to 'dumb dogs', though its frustrating because they are sooooo stupid. Their robot bodies are designed to be able to function equally well in standing and quadreped positions, and the smartdogs often switch between the two as preference and situation allow. From their perspective, when they were dumb they saw humans as big dogs anyway. Getting upgraded to be a 'big dog' too isn't a bad deal.

Despite being human tier smart, they still are fundamentally dogs at heart. They like participating in group activities and are drawn to organizations with clear hierarchy. They enjoy physical work more than mental work, and they thrive on constant validation. Early testing of integrating these into a police force ran into problems when the dogs realized they were getting an unfair deal, and they went on strike until their demands were met.

Their demands? They eat at the table, the exact same food as the humans get, at the same time that the humans eat too.

That was it. To a human, this is dumb. But to a dog, who gets to eat ahead of who is a big deal.

The Dune books touch on this a bit. Humanity finds a planet, dumps animals and humans on it, then moves on. The books repeatedly mention animals that have been engineered for planets or that have evolved to survive there since being "seeded".
If your idea of travel and colonisation involves space cities that just land somewhere and settle in, animals would be useless. But in a seeding scenario they are just as important as people.