These puppies are up for adoption, after being rescued from laboratories such as those #Fauci supported.
I can’t have another, here in Rome! https://t.co/p1BO0zjsZG
— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) August 11, 2022
Dogs are instant love.
Send in the Beagles!
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Aye, but all but the smallest dogs merit a yard in which to run around. The biggest dogs belong in the countryside. Dogs of more modest size work for suburban and small town homes with some green space around them. On occasion you see that in the city as well. You get down to townhouses, duplexes, and apartments, you should have an agreeable pooch no larger than a cat and not to given to running around. We have relations in assisted living who have a maltese / yorkshire mutt who seems more-or-less content with their apartment if she can get a twice daily walk around the grounds.
Cats aren’t instant love, but they love those they’ve learned to trust. You have to remember you’re on their schedule, they’re not on yours. They work much better for apartment dwellers and the like.
In my rough observation, dogs appeal to people with sanguine or choleric temperaments (or on the spectrum between them), cats appeal to people with melancholic temperaments and people on the melalancholic-phlegmatic spectrum. People who are unadulterated phlegmatics tend to have low emotional investment in their pets if they have any at all.
When my wife and I read this piece, we thought “wouldn’t it be great to get a beagle!” But me at 92 (and not spry) and my wife at 87 (wheelchair bound), we’ve resigned ourself to no more dogs since Jack died 2 years ago. We have a big yard with an invisible fence, but aren’t able to train a dog to the fence. sigh…we’ll be waiting to meet all the dogs and cats that have been in our lives, when we goi over that rainbow bridge.
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