Another Heretic
 

You can take a pregnancy joke far, far afield, can't you?

Puppies, robust and otherwise
 

The biggest single thing I will say about a puppy is you need to be able to get home every 4 hours to let him out. Puppies simply cannot be expected to hold it for any longer than that. They also need to be fed frequently until they are at least a few months old.

You also could not leave a puppy loose in your home. Puppies get into a lot of mischief. They chew wires, they eat chemicals, they pee on your floor. They are basically like young children wandering around getting in trouble. (Though I don't know if young children pee on floors.) So the puppy would need to be in a crate. There is nothing wrong with crating a dog, they are cave dwelling animals by nature and like it after they get used to it, but not for hours and hours at a time without time out to stretch their legs, especially a young puppy.

Puppies get very lonely, especially if they are coming from being with their mom and their brothers and sisters, with whom they spent all their lives up to this point. They need to be able to focus on you as their pack leader to replace the family they have lost.

You can't leave the puppy alone with displaced dog at first, because the puppy could be easily harmed by an older dog. Yes displaced may be very sweet and generally ok, but he could easily get his nose out of joint, as breeders tend to say, by a new addition to the family, and you just need to be careful when puppies are very young in terms of mixing them with other dogs. Especially male dogs.

If you can only come home 2-3 times a week during lunch, I wouldn't get a puppy. Because more likely, you would need to go home 1-2 times a day, depending on your work schedule. If you work a 9-5 kind of day, you could probably get away with going home during lunch, but it would have to be every day.

You might consider rescuing an older dog that is still young. Maybe just under a year. Then if you cannot get home quite as often you will be ok.

One of the reasons I don't have a dog at all is because I cannot get home to care for him, and I live alone. My parents have a dog they would like me to take, and he would love to be an only dog, but I don't think it would be fair to him, he would be without my company for too much time, and he would be utterly miserable. He is an older dog and could go long periods without being let out, but even so, I would need to get home in the middle of the day every day, and I can't do that. So until I have a lifestyle that enables me to do this or have someone do it for me, and also, until I travel less, I won't have any dog, never mind a puppy.

bleh
 

I think it is more likely that she is just getting fat. Most pregnant people don't gain that much weight EVERYWHERE when people are still in the "is she or isn't she" phase. Poor XTina. She can't win. Either too skinny or too fat. And no pictures from the just right in between phase.

If she is pregnant, I hope she removes her nether-piercings before attempting to give birth.

Another Heretic
 

Not really. I was thinking about Satan.

bleh
 

bad........visual.......

n(thx abba)cs

Dante Test
 

I would be in the 7th level of hell. Apparently, because I am a sodomite.

Damn that Santorum.


The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score
Purgatory | Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo | High
Level 2 | High
Level 3 | High
Level 4 | Moderate
Level 5 | Moderate
Level 6 - The City of Dis | Moderate
Level 7 | High
Level 8- the Malebolge | Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus | Low

Ladies, Do Not Do This
 

Is this practice like saying "dis"?

f(interested primarily because I will be living in the City of Dis at some point, and wondering if we will be required to talk in partial words like ditzy chicks)b

edited to change "girls" to "chicks"

Dante Test
 

If it means anything to you, I've always considered you a pillar.

Dante Test
 

Of salt?

Dante Test
 

For some reason, now I have songs from "GodSpell" running through my head.

Thanks.

Really.

Bass ackwards
 

It seems to me the All-England Club eliminated the wrong tradition.

http://espn.go.com/tennis/news/2003/0429/1546283.html

Spree: no more bowing/curtsying, but men still earn more than women.

Dante Test
 

It has long been known that the ancient Mesopotamians marketed a "pillar of salt" biblical sex toy, and they were smart enough to include a warning label cautioning the user to not rub salt in the womb.

ATLA must have been strong back then, as well.

bleh
 

I just saw this new shot of her, and I think she's just a fattie:

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...2684526682.jpg

Even(gotta love yahoo's most-emailed content email)Odds

Dante Test
 

Oh God, that was really really bad.

Salt in the womb.

Heh

Bass ackwards
 

While in the real world, I think people should not be paid based on gender, here is one area where there should be a difference. The men play best of five, the women play best of three. The men play more tennis so their higher pay is justified. I'm surprised that the Australian and US Open's give the same prize money for less work.