But in all fairness to dog owners, I'm sure if we had a dog, that it would be a Pubbie dog.
Conservative credentials: put an AuH2O sticker on my car & started collecting Millions For Goldwater after a friend gave me a copy of The People's Pottage in 1962, have 5 rocksolid Christian conservative kids w/spouses of the same persuasion (3 of them Hillsdale College grads & now Christian private school teachers who assign Bastiat, von Mises, "Atlas Shrugged", etc., as required reading in Economics) & 17 Reagan Republican grandchildren (oldest of which is entering Hillsdale next week).
I'm for Dr.Pepper (not diet), full-caf Bull Run Roasters Costa Rican coffee/PG Tips teabags, margaritas w/salt, Pall Mall Lights (every joyous puff cries Yea to life), beloved red '96 Jeep Cherokee covered with flag Ws, Sweet Baby Ray's Hot n'Spicy (tomato-based) BarBQ sauce, iMac just updated to OS X.
Dogs owned: Collie, Corgi-Shepherd mix, Mini Schnauzers (4), Airedale, Standard Poodles (2), Airedale: my buddies, bedwarmers, DEW alarm systems, bodyguards, exercise machines (making me get out & walk every day when I wouldn't otherwise). Cats: 3 long ago & never again for reasons too painful to dwell on, though one of my daughters has a cat that's pretty hilarious to watch (at HER house).
"Mendacious nonsense" (doesn't that verge on rhetorical overkill, Smonk?) or not, this was more fun than the well-deserved ordeals of NJ. Great posts (w/a few "catty" exceptions:o) & GREAT pictures (even the cats).
(ladyjag, that wasn't my cat (I microwaved all mine), but it sure looks like one of the four "independent/self-sufficient" ones I've had to scrape off the street in front of my houses through the years before the children saw them & started crying.)