Good to have another Flatlander on the board. I think you will enjoy getting to know some of the pets which others here have. Even though I have my own two dogs, I have developed an affection for quite a few of the cyber furkids.

Really, I think you are making the right decision about not getting a dog right now. Even though it was light years ago, it was very taumatic for me to have to give up my Sheltie when I went to college. (My mother didn't want to be bothered with having a dog.) He was placed in a very good home where he lived out the rest of his life. I came back from college and went to visit him and he didn't seem to remember me. I was crushed. Leaving him was one of the regrets of my life.