Canynes - Dog-like Monster Comrades

Canynes are a hunter companion and the counterpart to Felynes. As their name suggest, they're dog-like, resembling a shiba inu dog. Unlike Felynes, Canynes have helped Hunter for ages and they cannot be found in the wild anymore. Instead, they must be hired from certain NPCs. They attack similarily to Felynes, but also have some abilities that they don't have - such as using their highly developed sense of smell to pin-point the exact location of a monster in the map or dig up hidden objects.
Canynes and Felynes don't get along well. When a Canyne and a Felyne hunt together, an "Affinity meter" will fill up. This works exactly like Cha-Cha and Kayamba's Cha-Chum meter. The more it fills up, the more they will colaborate on a hunt. Thus, a pair with an empy Affinity meter will barely team up and might even attack each other. With a full meter, they will team up and perform dazzling combination attacks stronger even than they would do with a partner of their own species.
Like Felynes, Canynes are fully customizable. There's a complete editor for them like there's for playable hunters and Felynes. Here, the player can customize the Canyne's fur pattern, ears, eyes, and tail to his/her liking. The different customization options resemble different breeds:
*Fur: Shiba Inu, Shiba Inu (tricolor), German Sheperd, Dalmatian, Australian Sheperd, Golden Retriever, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Beagle, Rottweiler, Siberian Husky, Corgi.
*Ears:Shiba Inu, Cocker Spaniel, Pug, Basset Hound, Bulldog, Shetland Sheepdog, Pomeranian, Papillon
*Tail: Shiba Inu, Labrador Retriever, Pointer, St. Bernard, Alaskan Malamute.
They can also be equipped with armor just like Felynes. The armor they wear will affect their skills and behavior in battle. 
Like Felynes, Canynes possess Fortes, or classes. However unlike Felynes, Canynes can learn combined Fortes by hunting with other Canynes. In that way, one might have a mixed Canyne of up to two fortes, such as Fighting and Protection, or Healing and Support. They also behave sightly different from Felynes, for example a Fighting Canyne can bite and hang to a breakable part of the monster for a short period of time to weaken it.