> i'm sorry--it wasn't personal about buddy [the dog]. i have nothing against > him personally [surely he wouldn't care if i did, he is in better > circumstances than i]. i was just kidding around...had i any idea my cynical > attitude about the first dog would prevoke such negative reactions, i'd not > have mentioned it. sorry guys. : ) You've got nothing to apologize for, even if it was your post that provoked the complaint. Frankly, I don't know what that was all about. And I say that as the owner of *two* dogs from hell (dachshunds, each of whom behaves like the dachshund Zooey spies out the window, fretting about its owner, in the "Zooey" portion of F&Z). --tim