Going To The Dogs

I went up to Fort Collins to have dinner with my sister Susan and brother-in-law George this past Sunday afternoon.  They have two dogs - Tutu (in the photograph on the left) and Blackberry, on the right.  Susan and George treat them like their children and cater to their every whim.  They have often suggested that I need to get a dog, too, but I just can't take on the additional expense.  Not the cost of feeding a dog, but all those other expenses that Susan and George wound up having to pay, such as having to replace their ruined carpet, veterinary bills, hundreds and hundreds of doggie toys, doggie bonnets, doggie clothing, etc.etc.  In other words, not only am I a cheapskate, I am also half-way sane.