puppy hate

[my_daroga]

In Stanley Coren's Why We Love the Dogs We Do: How to Find the Dog that Matches Your Personality, the psychologist and author of The Intelligence of Dogs seeks to provide a fool-proof method of choosing the right sort of companion for your personality by combining research into historic figures and a new breed classification system based on

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[inlaterdays]

Oooh, Imma take this test when I have time. The perfect dog for me was my Australian Shepherd, Aife, who died of cancer at age 13. :( Best dog EVAR.

[my_daroga]

Aww. The only Aussies I know are way too needy; but I can see the attraction.

[inlaterdays]

She was a "Velcro Aussie"...stuck to me like glue. We were like symbiotes almost. I ran with her every day and took her to the park almost every weekend. She helped me bring the groceries in from the car (she'd carry boxes of dryer sheets and stuff like that). She could do all sorts of tricks - speak, roll over, play dead, shake, shake with the other paw,etc.

[my_daroga]

So you were the right person to have one; the one I'm most familiar with would be like that if she wasn't a neurotic freak. Which might have to do with her dad not giving her enough to do.

She pees whenever she sees me, but not because she's afraid.

She insists on sitting on your lap but will not stop trying to lick your mouth.

She gets insanely jealous if you pay attention to the other dog.

Like Border Collies, they're so smart that if you don't use it, the go a little nuts.

[inlaterdays]

Yeah, they are definitely a working breed, not so good just for pets who lie around the house. Aife loved being given stuff to do and she would learn FAST.

I think I bond better with animals than with people - all my pets, whether cats or dogs, have been one-person animals and I spent a long time with them daily doing stuff. With Migoto we play with her toys and I brush her when I get home from work...with Aife there was a ton of stuff she liked to do! On weekends she would "plow" me out of bed with her forehead if I wasn't getting up fast enough. :D

[my_daroga]

That's the same reason I only want one of any kind of pet--single cats, single dogs. Because it makes them think *you* are their family, whereas sometimes if they've got companion animals, there's a divide between the species. I have "personal" relationships with both of them, which are different from Mr. Daroga's. Special games, and stuff.

Aww, I want to go home and cuddle them both.