I don't own a dog right now, but I have been regularly walking a dog for an old lady in my building for almost a year. That's long enough that I feel pretty attached to him... if anything bad happened to him I woujld probably cry. He's just a little guy, part cairn terrier and part Lhasa apso, but he has character... he's cool. Too cool for his own good actually. Sometimes he arbitraily decides to remind me that he has his own free will, and does what he wants, so he just digs his heels in and won't let me pull him forward with his leash, even when we are crossing a street that goes up and down an extremely steep hill. Cars are barely under control at all on that hill, he has no concept of how crazy and dangerous it is to just randomly stop in the middle of that street.

But, he's cool, I like him.

Just getting back to this board, after a few days of family stuff. Anyway, why, thank you Smerd. I have a lot of days when I hate just about everyone, but the lady who owns that dog has always been nice to me. Plus, I am just a dog person, any excuse to have a dog in my life is a good thing.