For the first two years I had my boy, I was terrified his first family would try to get him back.

All of the dogs we place either came from shelters or had signed owner give up forms. If those who gave them up try to get them back, too bad.

I had that fear with my first boy, Levi, though. He was a stray that we got from a friend of a friend. Instead of trying ton find him, though, his probably former owners simply dumped three of his siblings in the same neighborhood a week later. Levi was the world's greatest boy dog ever.

He likes to curl up in bad with us.

There may be laws against that, y'know.

Okay, maybe by Buffista standards I *am* a prude. That still makes me adventurous among hooples, though. Oh, I think I get it, Hec, it's like the flip-side of the sponge-bath question I used to get all the time.(isolation does occasionally have its benefits, in that I don't now, but I'm here posting this on Saturday night, so, it's probably a wash.) Things like that can be hard for me to talk about, and I stil think nurses should be able to talk about movies or dogs without confronting it, though.

All of the dogs we place either came from shelters or had signed owner give up forms. If those who gave them up try to get them back, too bad.

Bboy was found wandering...perfectly trained but with no tags. He was, it turned out, extremely ill. I suspect his first people dumped him because they could, or would, not do what it took (massive money and loads of time) to cure him. They might have said he was 'lost' after I'd fixed him up.

Good job, Beej. But possession is 9/10 of the law and you had the receipts to back up your claim.

I hate it when people dump dogs because they don't want to take care of them. We got a dog from a vet practice. He'd been hit by a car and his owners wanted him euthanized. They signed him over to the practice and the staff raised the money for his surgery and treatment. They fixed him and got him to us. Then the former owners started calling them saying they wanted him back. The staff quoted the former owners back to themselves. "He's no good for hunting anymore, so we don't want him." Jerks. The dog in question is living happily ever after far away from his former owners.

that makes me sad. I'd be lost without my dog, and I'm still sad that her "big sister" got robbed by dying at seven. Not enough, damn it.

Yes, erikaj, the only downside to dogs is the unreasonably short lifespan. I find it appalling that my sisters's evil parrot will probably outlive us all. Merlynne will be there post-apocalypse along with cockroaches and Keith Richards.

Aww, doggy pics. Here is Brandy taking a nap. [link] If you scroll back a couple she is playing with deer.

pouts for lack of software developer pervs

Awww....Brandy napping. So cute. Deer, too.

pouts for lack of software developer pervs

So you'd like it if guys, upon finding out your occupation, said, "Oh, is it true that software developers are easy lays?"

My answer, when confronted with this as a nurse, was "Not nearly as easy as men." But it was the '70s and they didn't get it.

In the 70s I was mostly doing accounting in radio stations. Don't know if it is any better for nurses, but generally most women I know encounter less stupid pervy comments than they did in previous decades. It certainly still happens, but women maybe have smacked them down some.