| You Know You've Gone To The Dogs When...
- You start barking at your children to "Sit! Stay!"
- Dog crates double as chairs and/or tables in your family room.
- You spend more time looking through mail order catalogues for dog supplies than for Victoria's Secret nighties or Miles Kimball
gadgets.
- Everyone at the office is eager to know if the dogs are all right because
you were late for the meeting.
- You no longer have to buy extra large garbage bags, because the
empty, 40 pound dog food bags will do just fine.
- To win a precious $.75 show ribbon, you think nothing of forking out
hundreds of dollars to board/pet sit the other dogs, pay for entry fees,
gas, accommodations and meals.
- You can only remember people by associating them with their dog.
- Complete strangers call you on the phone to ask questions because they heard
you were a"dog person".
- You feel sympathy pangs for first-time parents of kindergardeners because your house feels so empty when your dog leaves with someone else for the dog park on the other side
of town.
- Your mom calls and asks how the granddogs are.
- You describe your children as having temperaments rather than personalities.
- First time visitors wonder aloud: "Do you smell something?" and you really don't.
- All your non-dog friends know to dress down when visiting your house.
- Your friends know which chair not to sit in.
- The first question you ask when on a date is: "So, do you like animals?".
- Onlookers grimace at the sight of you sharing your sandwich with your
four-legged pal, bite for bite.
- Your cookie jar has never seen the likes of people cookies.
- You're more familiar with dog laws than you are with people laws.
- Your voice is recognized by your vet's receptionist.
- Your vet takes a few extra courses just to keep up with your breed's
assorted ailments.
- One of your vet files is labeled "Other".
- Your vet file rivals War And Peace.
- You've just spent $60 on groceries and realize none of it is for yourself.
Thanks to Laurie Miller of the Huntington Dog Group down in Southern
California.
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