With a dog, if you raise it's hearts by talking to it daily, you can leave it outside. This way, if you want your animals to spend the night outside, with a fence of material stone or something, the wild dogs won't scare your livestock. When the wild dog scare them, they get grumpy and sick. So your dog is actually important in this game.
You can't get a cat, only a dog.
You befriend Mirabelle and soon after she will bring you a dog. :-) good luck!
Go to the forest after you build a bridge there. It has to be raining or snowing. Mirabelle will be there and will give you the dog.
You don't You can have sheep, cow, chickens, a horse and a dog, but no ducks.
The only pet you can have is a Dog. Unless you count a Horse as a pet.
Befriend Mirabelle to two hearts. Enter the Forest on a rainy day. You will get the scene where you adopt a stray dog.
You need to have Chen or Charlie at 3 hearts. Then you will wake up one morning and they will present it to you.
If you're talking about Harvest Moon: Island Of Happiness, then I'm pretty sure you can't. I'm on year three and I haven't been able, but don't take that from me haha. If you're talking about Harvest Moon: Cute then I truly have the slightest idea. I haven't played that one yet!
Befriend Mirabelle to two hearts. Then walk into the forest area on a rainy or snowy day. You should get a scene where you and Mirabelle help a dog. You keep the dog afterward.
you need the second bridge to the forest and 2 hearts with Mirabelle. and it has got 2 be rainy. go2 the forest when rainy and mirabelle will give u it.
in harvest moon ds all you do to get the dog is get out of your house. :) hope i helped
Ok first Either get Marribelles Friendship of to 2 hearts or if you alredy have a live stock (Chickens ect.) if you go to the forest (Drizzle rainy snowy) marribelle will ask you for help finding a dog