People/pets/plants are all a dime a dozen, too, but we all have some that we bond with, and some that we don't.
Mine are special to me. It isn't important to me that they be special to anyone else.
I hug my cactus and porcupine (love hurts). Lassie ran for help when Timmy fell down a well because Timmy told him to. I fell into a vat of balloons, and was about to instruct my porcupine to rescue me, when he dived in. Soon, the whole balloon pit was evacuated (I was saved).
Our savior is similar. He rescues us, on his own terms, and sometimes he's awfully hard to hug.