Very astute. One flaw. I don't have any dogs. I have a Crazy Lady who has 7 dogs. You might be referring to those Borzoi.
I refer to them as emergency rations.She is not amused.![]()
I'm not either, they can eat a horse and are not getting fat.
You have 7 of those horses!?


I don't think I've ever acquired an animal that wasn't motivated by "because I want it". I'm the mad scientist sort, as you all know well. I do stuff for the sheer "Why not?" nine times out of ten. (Though, to be entirely fair, I usually stop wanting something entirely once I find out it's prohibitively expensive... except for a degree. In hindsight, maybe I should've stopped wanting that too, eh.) Doing something because you want to doesn't equate ill thought out or impulsive. Heck, it usually takes me years to decades to finalize plans. I pinch pennies until Lincoln has blood running out of his mouth from ruptures in his respiratory tissue, so I think I can splurge on having a few button quail around without feeling guilty, y'know?

I’m the same way. In fact, I do so much planning and research I usually never actually acquire the animal.


That's what I call the dog as well. She provides some practical purpose of scaring off large predators, so that's why she's emergency rations and not regular Saturday night rations.
