when this came up yet again a few months ago i, too, laughed myself silly re-reading the whole goofy thing...then went home and had my newbies (daughter-in-law and her two teenage sons) start sniffing...my five dogs(including the one my mother left here when she moved to TX) and their three dogs. Here we are, all five of us on the floor sniffing eight dogs' feet comparing them and laughing and in walks a friend of the boys... I think he was sure we had been sniffing something else besides dog feet
Laurie