Great companion dogs, is accurate, but has a positive spin. 
 My grandmother had a bichon bitch. The bitch would literally follow people around all the time.  Good thing bichons are small, if a lab did that one would get  hit with a tail, and the lab would have to move in order for one to get by.  She could not be left alone. Literally would howl  until people came. That is why my grandmother couldn't leave her at her traile to go to a store . The bichon was so  in need of constant attention that she howled for three contst hours, with a person up stairs.