The dog back at the house says "Arf-arf" and the one in the circle says "Hello." The issue I'm having is that the quest isn't being triggered to go talk to him, it's stuck on talking to the witch and no matter how many times I talk to her, it never says I've completed the quest to talk to her.
My boyfriend completed the quest just fine, so I'm not really sure what's hanging me up..
And now I can't complete the other quest in town that wants me to talk to her, because she's still stuck on the dog dialog.
After a grueling quest-resetting process, we got it fixed.