>>58442497Give mega evolution so it gets a thicker fur coat
Maybe make it fire/ice because the color picker says its stripes are dark blue, and blue is a color associated with ice, and plenty of ice types have thick fur (such as beartic, mamoswine, crabominable, and darmanitan-galar)
Or fire/dragon since the stripes can also be interpreted as black, and both black and blue are associated with the dragon type (examples being Salamence, Hydreigon, Zygarde, Kyurem, Baxcalibur, Dragapult, Eternatus, Kingdra, Latios, Guzzlord, Walking Wake, Zekrom, Roaring Moon, Mega Fug, Garchomp, Dialga, Altaria, Drudigon, and Mega Charizard X)
Or fire/water because of its bluish stripes and because dogs are known for swimming to the point where a method of swimming is named after dogs
Or fire/ground because its fur is light brown, a color similar to that of sand
Or fire/rock, which would be badass if it got head smash and rock head
all of these are completely serious ideas, besides the last one. hisuian arcanine can get dragon dance though since he's a good boy 