No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.
The Lovecats - The Cure
The Snake - Al Wilson
Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Foxey Lady - Jimi Hendrix
The Doors - Peace Frog
When Doves Cry - Prince
Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin
Three Lions
Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
Dead Dog in the Alleyway - Richard Dawson
Mockingbird Diet - Karl Blau
Beach House - Zebra
YYYs - Gold Lion
Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
Parasite - Nick Drake. (arf)
Leviathan - Everything Everything.
Porcupine - Echo & BM
Great shout actually.
Sufjan Stevens - ‘The Predatory Wasp…’
Grant Lee Buffalo - ‘Mockingbirds’
Low - ‘Dinosaur Act’
Jesus Lizard - Puss
Pissed Jeans - Cathouse
Ride - Seagull
Joanna Newsom - Monkey and Bear
The Fall - Fortress/Deer Park
Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants
A song has popped into my head and is now annoying me because I can’t remember the band. It was post Nirvana grunge nonsense from the early 90s and was about a dog - I think that the title was the dog’s name?
I Wanna Be Your Dog
Hungry Like the Wolf
Eye of the Tiger
Cat Stevens - I Love My Dog
Modest Mouse - Wild Pack of Family Dogs
The Antlers - Putting The Dog To Sleep 
Honorables:
The Futureheads - Hounds of Love (the definitive version)
Grandaddy - Stray Dog And The Chocolate Shake
Lucy Dacus - Triple Dog Dare
A load of Sublime songs are about his dog?
It suddenly came to me and it’s worse than I remember.
Yeah there is absolutely nothing you can do to get me to press play on that.
Bunny Is A Rider - Caroline Polachek
Black Sheep - Metric
Wild Horses - Flying Burrito Brothers
Robert Wyatt - Pigs… (In There)
Lankum - Hunting The Wren
Modest Mouse - Doin’ the Cockroach
Nina Nastasia - A Dog’s Life
Deerhoof - This Magnificent Bird Will Rise
Alessi Brothers - Seabird
Nine Inch Nails - Piggy
The Walkmen - The Rat
Smashing Pumpkins - Pug
How could I forget this!