Dogs are permanent 3-year-olds....that you can leave home alone for 8+ hours at a time.
Seriously. Dogs are dependent creatures. They bond to you. You become their pack leader.
A failure to create an environment of healthy pack mentality creates a problem dog.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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