dawg build

looking for a way to incorporate as many dogs into one character as possible

thinking about trying beast master ranger, summon scratch, shadow sorcerer for nimbus and druid but have no idea how to make this viable. playing on balanced difficulty so doesn’t have to be particularly strong build but hoping at least make it not useless. Have a giant barbarian in the party so i was thinking maybe throwing nimbus at enemies could be fun.

Alternatively i like the idea of a salami throwing build with a ranger companion or something