I found a small dog in the park yesterday afternoon then a man came around the corner and yelled Rufus and got the dog for free.
I thought, I don’t have a dog, that would be nice thing to have and
tried it myself. On the next man/dog combo, I hollered ‘rufus!’, the man’s name was Rufus, he came over and talked to me about renovating for half an hour.*
I wanted a dog, now I am not so keen.
Have you one?
If you get one, I recommend getting a unicycle dog:p
I had a dog, I miss her but they are a ton of work and take a lot of time
kids take a lot more work and time than dogs, and parents are glad when they’re gone too. But dogs never say “F— you mommy!” or come home drunk, or total the car. So by comparison, dogs win!
I do none of the above!
Really. You take no more time or work than a dog?! I never drive my dog to soccer or have to show up at her graduation or parent teacher conferences. Could your parents drop you at the kennel for a week when you were 3? Can they leave you in the yard all day long, or home alone all day? Does a dog beg and pester for a new unicycle?
you might have no idea what your parents have done for you.
I’m sad to say. We invite more people over with their dogs than people with their kids. The dogs are better minded and more polite.
Everybody here has been behind that little SOB in the checkout line that the parent lets run wild. Yep, it’s a sad state of affairs. I chose to have no kids. Always had a dog and cat. Equals out the Cool and Drool.
I was more on the I have never told my mom to f off. But on the side note of graduation my dad is making me go I don’t want to go
You better go to your graduation, dammit, after all they did for you! How did they raise a child like you who doesn’t want to attend graduation? Don’t let it be known or it will bring shame on your household. 
The availability of reliable contraception along with support provided in old age by systems other than traditional familial ones has made childlessness an option for some people in developed countries.
But there’s less societal pressure too. A 2011 MacArthur Research Network survey found that only half of U.S. consumers cite marriage and parenthood as required milestones of adulthood.
Laura Carroll is a San Francisco-based writer who 10 years ago wrote one of the first books on voluntary childlessness, “Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice.”
“It just boiled down to never really having an interest in having my adult life revolve around raising children,” Carroll says when explaining her own situation. “I thank my parents, because when raising (us), they told us we can grow up and have any life we want, and it can look any way we want it to look.”
Supporters of living childfree (e.g. Corinne Maier, French author of “No Kids: 40 Reasons For Not Having Children”) cite various reasons[6] for their view:
Desire for more economic freedom with the ability require working hours to support your lifestyle
personal well-being
belief that one can make a greater contribution to humanity through one’s work than through having children
perceived or actual incapacity to be a responsible and patient parent
view that the wish to reproduce oneself is a form of narcissism
belief that it is wrong to intentionally have a child when there are so many children available for adoption
concern regarding environmental impacts such as overpopulation, pollution, and resource scarcity
belief that people tend to have children for the wrong reasons (e.g. fear, social pressures from cultural norms)]
dislike of children
lack of interest
I own a dog that looks like a cross between a Holstein cow and an iguana.
Some breeds of dog require a much greater amount of work than others. For example an Australian shepherd vs. a tiny Chihuahua purse dog.
Big time.
There are downsides, of course, if you’re comparing one to the other. Dogs won’t take care of you when you get old. You get a lot less pride and sense of accomplishment if they grow up to be happy and successful.
Give it time; you still live in their house, right? 
You’ll be out of their lives soon enough. Do them this favor–you might be glad you did in the future. I didn’t go to mine (my parents were fine with that); I assumed my “real” graduation would be from college. But that never happened. I actually watched the end part of my HS graduation from outside the fence, atop my 6’ unicycle.
Back to the original topic: dogs. We have two French Bulldogs and an English Bulldog. Unfortunately these are not “unicycle dogs.” While Bentley, our English Bulldog, has plenty of strength, bulldogs aren’t designed for going distance. They were bred more for short, intense fights with bulls (really! Look it up!). In dog shows, both kinds of bulldog are shown in the “Non Sporting” group. Yup, that basically fits. But they are great companion dogs, and they love us unconditionally, like nearly any other type of dog.
Don’t let the dog eat your Viagra, or it will turn into a Pointer:p
+1.
Nice dogs, too!
Well, I have 6 kids ranging in range from 11 to 23 years of age. I also have 3 dogs, a French bulldog, a French mastiff, and an English mastiff.
In my opinion, dogs are way easier.
Andre
I love my dog, a 15 month old standard Poodle. He pulls me along on my unicycle much better than my boy, an 11 year old Caucasian. Unlike the boy, if I ever got really fed up the dog I could give him away or shoot him. The dog likes dog food, which makes feeding him simple
The boy converses better than the dog, and it is a lot less likely that I will have to bury him some day. The establishment allows the boy to accompany me at movies, beaches, and restaurants. He also likes dog food, but prefers sushi. The dog probably would prefer sushi too.
Both are wonderful parts of my life.
Only say things once
All dogs IMHO should snap to the basic commands.
Stay, most important. A dog that won’t stay should be brought back to the point while verbally scolded. Then made to stay.
Sit. Point to their butt when you say it. Only say it once, never twice. If it doesn’t work the first time, push their butt down, then praise them.
Heel. This means walk next to me, jerk hard at the leash at any deviations. Dogs that I have walked for a week can be led around tied to a short strand of wet spaghetti.
Come ,this is the hard one. Never call a dog to you and then punish them. Dogs must be praised always when they come. To scold a dog, you must generally catch them in the act, or just let it pass.
If I call a pup once, and she doesn’t come, never say it twice, dogs are stupid, not deaf. Run the dog down like it’s a big deal and haul it by the collar to the exact spot where it disobeyed the come command. Make it sit and stay, while you go back to the exact spot when you had said “come”. Then call the dog again. It will come and you will praise it.
Never hit your dog, it is bad for both your self esteems. And never give an order twice, which just insults what little intelligence the dog knows he has.He heard you the first time.
Never hit your children.
never hit your wife
I was several posts into this thread before I realized the spelling was D-O-G. Oh well, at least I’m not dyslexic.
