Dogs or Cats???

Labradoodle, Peagle, Chiweenie
and the list goes on. What are these?
In my days, as a kid, we called them ...
mutts. Very affectionally, we call them mutts.

Now days they are called Designer Mutts.
Who would have figured? Guess one can
spin a special name and you can charge
for what use to be free.

Just for the record, they are
Labradoodle,
Labrador and Poodle (that one was easy)

Peagle,
Pekingese and Beagle

Chiweenie
Chihuahua and Dachshund

Everyone has had, or most anyway...
a dog in their lives. Some more memorable
than others. In our lives as kids, the family
started out with Boston Terriers and then
changed when I was about 5 to Dalmatians.
Mom kept Dalmatians until she passed away.

My own family of my kids and us.. we have had
many breeds. Mostly Shepard's. Few Labs, a
Collie-Shepard mix (would that be a Colliard?)
and if we bred any, it was the usual way, by
accident. Our dog and one male from a good
neighborhood. We rarely went to the vet. We
went for the shots only. We took good care of
them until they died in what ever fashion. And
we cried when they did.

Now it is specialty dogs, designer mutts. And
Vets, well, they even have health insurance for
your animals now. And it is a good idea to get
it, because owning a pet, isn't cheap anymore.
There are double, at least, the shots they need.
The Vet sends you a cutesy card to remind you
that your pet is due to the office. It comes in the
pets name.

Me, I am a cat person. Cats are cool. You just
make sure they have an automatic water feeder,
an automatic food feeder, and a clean litter box.
You can leave for a week. Cat doesn't care. He/she
has control of the house, can walk on the table and
counters while you are gone, just like your teen, the
cat lives a life of Riley.

Now a dog. You can have the automatic feeder
and water deal, but you still have to have some one
come over at least twice a day to let them out to
toilet. And you need them to be there twice a day
to see if they behaved themselves. Otherwise there
is toilet paper strung thru the house, all the things
on the table next to your chair is strung around
the house and chewed on. Dogs get bored, and
are like a 12 year old.

Yep, there is a difference alright.