My nickname has nothing to do with country music..*grin*. My birthday is actually 7/7/77....so, when my fiance was going to give me an account on his server, the birthday was the first thing that came to his mind.

Actually, I really, really prefer mutts from the SPCA. I have had a few mutts we adopted from there when I was growing up and I can't think of a better place to get a dog.

I really completely formed my decision about getting shelter dogs after my last dog, her name was Muffin. She was a lab/sheperd mix who passed away (2/15/98). We got her from the Norfolk, VA SPCA. She was the best dog I've ever had. Also, I recently bought a wonderful book called "The Adoption Option". I forget the name of the author, but she has been training dogs for a long time and the whole book was about adopting and training shelter dogs. Very nice to have a book about shelter dogs instead of people writing books saying only purebred dogs are worth getting.