Oh my, thanks so much for your reply. It helps me out a whole lot!
The thing about the famous dogs is very cool. Kinda proves to me that
choosing the dog as symbolic creature is not a bad choise.

I have a question about a part of your reply tho.

>Tentative suggestion:
>
> ek varða frændr mína sem hundr
>
> By the way, 'varða' belongs to a class of verbs
> which have -a in the first person singular. Luckily the inflections
> mean that there's no ambiguity (as there is in English) about who is
> being likened to a dog, you or your family!

if varða has -a in first person singular, should it be varð in the
sentance or not? I'm unsure as you wrote it as varða.
I know you already explained it, but I don't really understand it.
Words are a bit too big for me hehe.

thanks again for helping me!

Johannis