The phrase "affection for dogs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when expressing a fondness or love for dogs, often in contexts related to pet ownership or animal welfare.
Example: "Her affection for dogs is evident in the way she volunteers at the animal shelter every weekend."
Alternatives: "love for dogs" or "fondness for dogs."
Not out of my deep affection for dogs, fond of them though I am.
He has great affection for dogs and snakes and alligators and has kept the first two as pets.
When Hussain in the Membrane begins in earnest – with a bit about white people's universal affection for dogs – the culture shock is taken down a notch.
Approach her in a friendly way, mentioning that you share her affection for dogs and wonder why she brings hers to the garage each day.
It is a tale that could happen only in a city that has an extraordinary affection for dogs, attached residential buildings and a government that, some contend, seems to suffer lapses in common sense.
"Good doggies!" said Tina, whose loathing of birds is matched by such affection for dogs that she cried at the end of Cujo because the rabid St. Bernard died.
Though this anthropomorphism sometimes falls flat, Gorant's obvious affection for the dogs finally trumps such literary qualms.
For most of his life, he also wrote on wine for Country Life, a smaller publication that, to an extent, expressed his own lifelong affection for tweeds, dogs, tea by the fire and his unprepossessing home in the Cotswolds decorated in the William Morris style.
Now a team of Japanese scientists have found that the "mutual gaze" between dogs and their owners can lead to a bond that is similar to that between a mother and child, with humans experiencing the same feelings of affection for their dogs as they might do for their family, therefore helping to bring the species closer.
She provides homey insights into his personal idiosyncrasies, like his refusal to wear shorts because his knees were too white and his affection for his dog Blondie, trained to sing in two octaves.
And it's the minutiae she offers -- a kind of crime-scene analysis, an accretion of small details like Hitler's affection for his dog and the minor interaction he had with Eva Braun -- that are fascinating.
