What is the saddest/happiest dog story you ever heard? besides a movie?

I just received my new dog Thursday, and took a few days off to help her settle in. She's three years old, so I don't have to deal with the puppy stage, and she's quite content to sleep on her bed while I'm gone. I see no problem with getting a pup and working 8 hours, it's not cruel, and not the same as leaving a child alone since dogs are not children.

If you have someone come in and check on the pup, that's even better. What I don't like is people crating a pup for over 8 hours since it starts all kinds of bad habits, if you're going to crate train, the dog needs to be let out every few hours.. No system is prefect, and no one system is going to work for everyone. I had to laugh at an answer where the person said she would take a full three months off work to care for the pup, and not go back until the pup was house broke...obviously this person either stil lived at home, and didn't have to pay bills or had won the lottery..

Of course you can work and get a puppy. There are so many options these days with dog walkers, doggy daycares, etc. As long as the dogs needs are being met and you dedicate enough time to your dog when you are home I think it is fine. There are many people home all day with their dog but do nothing but talk to it and feed it, and feed it, and feed it.

They end up with fat dogs who can barely walk. Is that not abuse? It is the same as people who don't believe large dogs belong in an apartment.

I had a lab when I lived in an apartment. She got walked in the morning, walked after work and again in the evening and long hikes and dog parks on the weekend. She was in amazing physical shape and lived until 14.

I've never really seen a dog running laps by themselves in a big yard. Anyways what I'm trying to say is that yes you must make sacrifices somewhere to have a happy healthy dog but how you do that is up to you. Now that being said.

You must think seriously about what you are going to do and do it. If you aren't able to or willing to get a dog walker and you are gone 12 hours a day go to a rescue or pound and adopt yourself a nice older couch potato. Don't get a puppy and let it have the run of the house and then come home and be angry with the pup for pooping on the floor and chewing your furniture.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.