One modder has decided to rectify this in Fallout 4 – so now you can pet any dog in the game.

However, some games feature dogs that, however much you might want to because they’re all good boys, you can’t pet. Thanks to Twitter channel Can You Pet The Dog? which launched earlier this year, we now have a means of tracking exactly which videogames feature dogs you can pat – a very worthwhile and valid question, I’m sure you’ll agree.