Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

After reading the first 10 chapters of Do androids dream of Electric Sheep, I found it to be very interesting actually. A little bit to much going on but the idea I get a lot. I like the fact that the story is basically based on a hunt. Rick is on the hunt for Nexus-6 androids who are these robotic human things that’s weird to explain, but its cool. The one thing I don’t get it how the story shift from talking about Rick then John then back to Rick then back to John and then back to Rick. Its like what ? but then the entire part of the fighting and trying to kill is pretty interesting.

I’m not understanding so much as to why each person has an animal or better yet wants to have an animal. Maybe its because that the way they tell the difference between a human and android ? I don’t know. But I feel that the reason why the animals part is important is because the Test to see if your human or android is based on an empathy which to me means a feeling or feelings and I feel that a “robot” no matter how alike to a human it may be will not have those emotions that a human does. And so when the questions are asked the reactions of a human would be shown as more of a sympathetic or more caring than that of a robot and when you talk about an animal, all of a sudden something in a humans heart kind of just softens and becomes “nice” but if you were to ask the same question to a robot or android who has no feelings he wouldn’t be able to respond in the way a human would

But overall as far as getting to chapter 10 the story is getting really interesting