Many of us at work are animal lovers. Between the 5 females that work in the lab we have 6 dogs, 3 fish, 2 guinea pigs, 2 horses, 1 rabbit and an uncoutable number of cats (and this is downsizing, after one friend had to get rid of 3 horses, a goat, a donkey and had one dog go to RB), however there are only two males who work back there and neither have any pets. One of these males, claims to like dogs "in their place" and his definiton of that is "outside in the yard" He is almost horrified that we we all let our dogs into our homes and our beds. Okay, the beds is extreme for some people and I can understand that, but like Aly said, dogs are pack animals. They belong, inside where their pack lives!

And most my friend at work ( who love dogs)have decided they could alost take or leave dogs compared to me (meaning I too let my life revolve around my dog) Okay, so I take them to classes, train them and when I know we are going to be out all evening, I take them to dayschool so they get companionship and exercise when we can't do it. Right now, they are my only babies and I want to do everything I can for them. I may not be able to afford as much when we have skin babies, I do what I can for them (not that I will forget them later )