Your dog is getting old and arthritic, so you go buy lumber and build her a small staircase so she can climb onto the bed by herself. You match your furniture/carpet/clothes to your dog. You lecture people on responsible dog ownership every chance you get. You keep an extra water dish in your second-floor bedroom, in case your dog gets thirsty at night (after all, her other dish is way down on the first floor...) Your freezer contains more dog bones than anything else. You shovel a zigzag path ....




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