I am never in a hurry when reading quality CP fic. I tend to roll around it. Especially Douglas!snark. Can't get enough of that. And Herc makes a worthy foil for him :-)
Folks in the US are always leaving their dogs outside shops, but that is a Terrible Thing To Do since it annoys the shoppers who don't like dogs. A shop with rings for dog leads sounds lovely! It would never occur to me that someone might walk off with my dog.
It happens here, but rarely. Dog thefts tend to be to order or of the really valuable breeds. A neutered mini schnauzer is unlikely to be worth the trouble. I trained Kili to wait tied up outside places because it's incredibly convenient.
I suspect 25 years of keeping cats had given me a slightly blasé attitude towards risk and animals anyway. You look after them as well as you can but you can't keep them absolutely safe and even if you do they die of something in the end. So running around trying to avoid all the very minor risks that life exposes them to is essentially futile.
The schnauzer forum I belong to is full of people who take the opposite view, however. If I admitted to leaving Kili outside a shop in there I'd probably get ceremonially ejected!
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Folks in the US are always leaving their dogs outside shops, but that is a Terrible Thing To Do since it annoys the shoppers who don't like dogs. A shop with rings for dog leads sounds lovely! It would never occur to me that someone might walk off with my dog.
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I suspect 25 years of keeping cats had given me a slightly blasé attitude towards risk and animals anyway. You look after them as well as you can but you can't keep them absolutely safe and even if you do they die of something in the end. So running around trying to avoid all the very minor risks that life exposes them to is essentially futile.
The schnauzer forum I belong to is full of people who take the opposite view, however. If I admitted to leaving Kili outside a shop in there I'd probably get ceremonially ejected!
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