There is the perk “dog person” were the dogs don’t bark at you.
It would be cool if I could get a pet cat in the game.
Yeah, I know it’s silly, but I enjoy small aspects like that. 
If I can hope for anything, it’s better handling of how you or your horse get stuck on bushes, gates, trees… everything. It drives me crazy. Just slowing movement down would make more sense through very thick foliage than getting stuck.
Yesterday I got stuck in a patch of bush and couldn’t fast travel out. Eventually I wiggled my way out, but for a while it looked like my game was going to end being permanently stuck in a patch of overgrown grass. Then I tried to run from a guy looking to kill me. He and his friend almost did because I couldn’t get past a small patch of leaves and sticks.