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I recall making the same "no more dogs for me" pledge the day I had to put down both of our Poms on the same day. I made it to my car before having the obligatory melt down. Missed those dogs terribly. They were excellent family. The wife and daughter began pressuring me to get a dog about two years later. I was all, "screw that, you didn't have to put them down." About two years after that, I acquiesced and we adopted two mutts from the local rescue effort. There's something about a dog that completes my home. Plus, they love hanging with me when the wife and daughter arn't so inclined. Just took me awhile to be ready to commit.
P.S. - I hate squirrels. Long live those who fight in the war against those rats with good PR (i.e., fluffy tails).
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John Stuart Mill: "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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