Soon after Nayani Tandon got her first dog, a labrador named Bobo in 2013, she decided to open a pet café in Delhi so that she could be with her pets round-the-clock. Tandon, who now has four dogs, says that they trump everyone and everything, including wedded bliss. “I don’t want to get married and have kids because I have all the love I need,” says Tandon, 30. “Besides, dogs are more faithful than men anyway.”

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Tandon isn’t the only millennial happy to raise a canine instead of a child. Devika Arora, who has adopted four dogs with her husband in the last two years, is clear that she doesn’t want kids.