AlKim: NCR. Their President was literally a dog. Yeah, it's a pretty buggy game.
Smannesman: I don't get it, in NV president Kimball is definitely humanoid.. is this some kind of Finnish joke or a reference to all men being dogs or did you experience a bug?
An NCR soldier shot my dog. This was immediately followed by a quest update telling me that the President was dead and that I should report this to somebody important whose name I have now forgotten. I reloaded an earlier save, got to the same point, and this time the bastard wounded Cass before killing the dog. Still got the quest update, though. Read whatever you want into that, but I swear that that happened.
langurmonkey: Let me get this straight. Your favorite faction is the NCR because their president is a dog?
The others I found either unlikeable or entirely forgettable, so yes.