Our neighbor two doors up stopped by to drop off some of our mail left in their box. He had his daughter's dog with him. "Stanley" looks like a bigger version of the dog in the Cesar dog food commercials. He looks pretty much like this:
Stanley was having a great time, sniffing out random peanuts that have landed under Himself's recliner (bought him a bag of in-shell nuts a week ago and have been regretting it ever since...) and a coffee bean from under our coffee station. Up the steps, down the steps, running in circles from living room to kitchen to dinette to family room...and back to the living room to start all over again.
He was having a GREAT time! So were we.
I'm afraid Himself is considering a trip to the shelter sometime soon.
At least dogs like car rides better than cats, usually. But they sure aren't as cheap or easy to care for...