Because of my name? [ it was a common enough assumption. ] What can I say? I like to keep people guessing.

[ though truthfully, he was far more like a cat than anything else. untrustworthy. friendly to those he liked, but always somewhat conditionally. downright vicious if you crossed him. but despite all that, he'd always liked dogs. ]

Home, actually. I guess you could say I shared ownership with a... friend of mine [ the easiest way to describe Venom Snake, he supposes.
]. He found him wandering in the wilderness, and I decided to train him.

[ he's like a son to him, ok. ]