Also, y'all mentioned Dachshunds and while I'd love to tell you they're always like this [link] or this [link] or even this [link] they are also stubborn, hard headed and sneaky.

I've also heard they can have horrific health problems due to the elongated back. Similar to how pugs can have horrific breathing issues.

Observes the Miracleborns with a combination of amusement and apprehension. Decides this probably won't end well no matter how it goes. Pops popcorn anyway.

As if...what? As if you had the keys to the car?

As if I couldn't get home some other way.

As if I couldn't get home some other way.

Okay, well there is that...

...hm. Wonder if there are any locksmiths about that might be able to do a fast job...

Wonder if there are any locksmiths about that might be able to do a fast job.

Ok - please to remember who works for the company that MANAGES THE BUILDING. Doof.

As if her new Great Danes couldn't chew through a door.

I've also heard they can have horrific health problems due to the elongated back. Similar to how pugs can have horrific breathing issues.

Yeah, mostly you don't want them jumping up on things because that can hurt their backs.

This is mostly not a problem for Oz since he just whines and looks at me with those expectant doe eyes and I pick him up and put him where he wants to be. We're talking when he wants back in the bed at 3 in the morning.

Ok - please to remember who works for the company that MANAGES THE BUILDING. Doof.

As if her new Great Danes couldn't chew through a door.

DAMMIT!!

I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for that meddling employer and that cursed pair of DOGS!!

Guess I'll just have to go back to the "haunted" amusement park and plan my next property acquisition caper...

You, Aimee, one of the best things about Great Danes is you can get them in a kind of "camel" color.

ION, I have a friend who is having one of those pregnancies where it looks as though she may be on complete bedrest for oh - 6 months. What would be fun for her to have to occupy herself? (I'm thinking that an itunes gift card might be cool. She could have the fiance download the stuff and then she could have new books/stories to listen to.)

Scooby-Doo killed the thread.

Maybe we should do the happy ending...

Brr-dee brr-dee brr-dee

"Aimee! Your dogs' album, 'Fuck, Off and Fly', just made No. 1 with a bullet on the Billboard charts! Casey Kasem wants you to take over his show! Paramount just sent over the preliminary contracts for a movie based on you and your dogs' life-stories and Steven Spielberg is so hot to direct that he says he'll have your baby!"