Who goes first?
From the publisher’s rulebook

Who goes first in Dog Lover?

English AEG base-game rules, sixteen-page optimized publisher PDF

Choose randomly, or let the player who owns the most dogs in real life start.

Read the publisher’s rulebook

Rule details

The player immediately counterclockwise from the starter places the Watch Dog token during setup; that placement does not make them the starting player.

If there’s a tie

The cited starting-player instruction does not specify a tie-break. We don’t infer one.

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