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Monday June 21, 2004

Our son wants a puppy

Currently we have two cats that live with us; Bob and Sorcha. When our son Duncan was younger, he used to chase these cats everywhere and basically scared the bejesus out of them. They've never forgotten that. Now that he's older and not so wild, they just don't want to know him.

He wants a cat or dog of his own. For quite a while now, we've been telling him that he'll have to wait until one of the two cats dies before we'll get another pet. Now it hasn't quite got to the stage where he's trying to push them down the stairs, but his patience has definitely gone and he was nagging us constantly. Over the weekend we broke down and said he can have a puppy.

Now we already have a "cat" flap that's just the right size for small dogs too, so we said he must choose a smallish dog so I don't end up being dog doorman.

My wife surfed to Animal Planet and showed him all the small dogs. He wants a chiwawa. Argh! I hate those dogs. There is a special place reserved in hell just for them. I know I'm going to end up walking this darned dog most of the time, so he needs to pick something that I don't mind being seen in public with.

We told him how yappy they are. And they bite you. All the time. It'll probably eat all of your toys too. So he's backed down from that, and we now just need to steer him gently in the right direction.

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( Jun 21 2004, 06:09:58 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [1]

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Rich, you might want to consider a toy poodle. They don't shed as they have a more woolly coat than furry, and are actually pretty intelligent dogs. Well, mostly intelligent. Ours managed to get hit by a car when he was six months old, though it took some doing. The car missed him at first, then he ran back into it. He is now a 7 year old, three legged poodle, but we wouldn't change him for anything. He now has a a few friends at home in the shape of other pets. I'll write about them later in my blog as we have an interesting array of pets.

Posted by Alan Hargreaves on June 21, 2004 at 09:55 PM PDT #