This is great in certain situations. When I was working as a public health nurse, one of the nursing homes I visited had a facility dog. The director adopted him from the ASPCA. Food service was in charge of the feeding, the nurses aides bathed him, he had a large garden in the back, the residents were in charge of the loving and the dog usually hung out in the lobby. He could be sound asleep on the lobby floor but when the door or the elevator opened his tail would thump the floor.
He would go to residents and sit in front of them waiting for a pat. The only hazard he had to watch out for was wheelchairs with bad drivers
That dog had it made!