That's not the excuse, that's the problem, whatever size pet you have.
The best dog in the world is a wonderful pet, nothing more.
You can have my 17 year old if you like! This would solve that problem for you and I will not have to worry about killing her the next time she shoots off her mouth. She is a JR at your old HS and I'm thinking of sending her to an Austrian nunnery for her SR. year! ROFL
I told her a couple of weeks ago that if I had adopted her first she would be an only child. She told me I was the only adult she knew who had never been a teenager....
BTW, I have an 8 pound, attack dachshund I think a great deal of, but much preferred when I had room for Labs.
We have a pop load of dogs - english mastiff (so sweet and even tempered, a heeler, heeler mix, a chihuahua, a yorkie-peke-?? mix and two 11 month old yorkies. Paid $500 for Chuhga and $1500 for Usdi Waya. Hubby liked to have had a cow when I got Chuhga and then a whole herd when we got Waya. Now he is so hung up on them. Would kill anyone who hurt them or tried to snatch them up. This is Chuhga when we first got her. BTW, Chuhga means Flea in Cherokee and Usdi Waya means Little Wolf - hwich he's not. He's a lover not a fighter.
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