How much is that doggie in the window?

[Hosakawa Tito]

When our last beloved dog died 4 years ago, my wife and I were so emotionally upset that we agreed to never have another. Even as kids we both always had at least one dog in our lives, and suffered the pain of loss when they died or had to be put down. You would think the process would get easier and one would learn to handle/cope with it better through experience. For us anyway that was not the case. That big dumb lovable ox, Apollo was a huge 180lb. Rottweiler, just broke our hearts when we had to put him down because of a cancerous tumor in his nasal passage.

Anyway, my wife has been kind of hinting that she might, just maybe, like to have another dog. So I'm going to take the plunge, again, and get us a Rottweiler pup from a breeder I know, and give it to her on Valentines Day. Man, the cat ain't gonna like this.