The only explanation I have is that some people are true animal people and some people are not - and have never had a pet.

I have some dear friends in Mass. and when I visited them they apologized for their carpeting. They had just lost a beautiful Wheaton Terrier that had been very ill. The carpeting had taken a beating. But in a flash it gave me an even greater insight into their characters. They loved that dog so much and took care of him until the very end - and be damned the carpet.


And then they came to visit me and I said "let me apologize for my carpeting" I had just lost in a one year time my beautiful Magic to cancer and my calico to kidney failure. They just looked at me and smiled..............carpet is carpet........

But a well loved animal is your heart - which is never soiled!