urbpan | I love them so much

I was looking through our online album trying to find recent pictures I haven't posted here, and came across this.

cottonmanifesto already posted it in her journal (she took the picture), but I had to run it here. I love Charlie's (he's the black one, if you don't know) expression, like he's in on some joke. And Maggie, of course, looks like a total maniac.

I have some bias here, but I think dogs are the best choice if you have to have animals living in the house with you. Not that they do anything for us--they aren't working dogs (the "work" they were bred for is illegal and self-destructive)--but they serve as sponges for affection. Or they're like capacitors: they absorb affection, and hold onto it for as long as you are gone, and then return it whenever you need it. They are rechargeable affection batteries--they give and receive feelings of warmth and affection and love constantly.

They require work and resources to function properly, and since they are living things we have a responsibility to their well-being, but at some point, we decided that all that work was worth it.