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Originally Posted by freakshow
EB pretty much sums it up for me.. minus the last paragraph, which I removed...
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And to counter EB, at least kids can take care of you when you're old!
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Yeah. There needed to be a little hyperbole in this thread, but you are giving your life over to something else when you buy a dog. There was a thread where someone was trying to give away their dog because they were moving and couldn't take their dog with them, and SkinnyPupp asked "Well, do you have to move?"
At first I thought it was absurd, for someone to have to re-arrange life decisions like that for an animal. But then I realized that to some people a dog represents more than just a novelty. A dog, to some, is an equal. It was eye opening.
And as for children. I think you can infer from context that I was taking an extreme position there.