Sandy, I love animals too - they are just so delicious!! JUST KIDDING. When Barkley died last month after being my 24/7 companion and best friend for 12 years, I was crushed. The deal that non dog people don't get, is that dogs give you completely unconditional love. You can't get that from most human beings. I don't trust people that don't have a thing for animals.

I have a friend who taught me to fly small planes in the mountains and Idaho backcountry. He takes people out fly fishing in his plane and lands right on the river sand bars (see my blog if you don't get what a deal this is). He has a flea bitten, Heinz 57 varieties, best friend that rides in the tail cone of the plane when he's out in the backcountry, and that dog has been around since I can remember. One day I asked him if he'd ever been married, and he answered through about a weeks worth of stubble on his face, that he had indeed tried it a couple of times, but he much preferred the company of his dog. He said there is a simple test to determine if you want to spend your life with a woman or a dog, and it goes like this.

You take your wife and your dog, and you lock them both in the trunk of your car for about an hour. Then when you come back and open up the trunk see which one is glad to see you.....

Sorry ladies.... it doesn't' of course reflect my opinions, since I've made a marriage stick now for 25 years. Of course it took some practice... there was number 1, and number two and......