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Susanne Helmert's avatar

I always wanted a dog when I was little. It took me almost forty years of my life before I got one and it is one of the best experience of my life. I hope, your wife will agree to a dog one day.

I really enjoyed that little story! Thank you for sharing.

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Timothy Case's avatar

Alex, another great story! We have three small dogs, which I half-heartedly describe to others as artifacts of our (adult) children. And while I typically classify dogs as 'tending towards' sentience, one of ours (Charlie, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel) seems to possess ACTUAL sentience, and this causes me to agree with your wife! So intuitive and communicative is he with his wags, snorts, pleadings, and intimations of disapproval, that I'll find myself apologizing for using foul language around him, as a hedge to the nontrivial possibility that I'm somehow destined to switch places with him in a future reincarnation...Of course, your wife is also correct about the traveling point, however we've found some boarding facilities to be now (thankfully?!) equivalent in hospitality (and cost) to three star hotels. So, that's a half-point to you. Another thought: You could always get the dog and blame me.

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