[AnAmericanMother]

She's our spoilt darling, sleeps on the bed and stays with me all day -- though she's good natured enough to compete in Hunting Retriever trials and Agility trials, and she loves doing something that involves running and jumping around (and swimming too.)

This makes me mad too -- anybody tries to take my dog is going to wish they'd never tried . . .

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

We've got three, all pets that our kids found out they couldn't keep so they "temporarily" left with us.

One's just a mutt(terrier mixed with God alone knows what)but she's smarter than some people I've been around and pretty well rules the roost. Number two is a one-eyed Australian Shepherd who must have a double dose of herding genes, because she'll run field trails on absolutely everything that gets inside the fence. The youngest is a "Yellow" Lab (She's actually snow white)who is hands down the best dog I've ever been around, but snubs everybody as soon as she sees our oldest grandson. (Nobody can figure out just who belongs to whom in that relationship.)

Try to take any of those dogs, and you'd better bring lots of help with supplies for a long term effort.

That's just to get by me, and then you'd have to deal with Grandma.