Also, if Ouise is reading, can she please check her invites on Facebook???

Oops! checking right now!

The dog talk is making me think of this link.

Rescured laboratory beagles seeing daylight for the first time.

Safe for work unless tearing up is an issue. Then not-so-much safe for work.

I strongly encourage anyone with a dog to crate-train them as early as possible. Even if you don't ever plan to crate them during the day, it's really useful to be able to crate a dog--for travel, for visitors, for housecleaning, and so forth.

Anyway, "too long" depends on the size of the crate and the dog, and how good the dog's bladder is. But remember that a dog in the house still has the same size bladder. And most of the time, a dog loose in the house is doing the same thing a dog in a crate is: lying around sleeping.

I had a long talk last week with a coworker who believes that crate-training for more that a few hours a day is cruel and no life for a dog. She doesn't think it's wise for me to take one of my other coworkers puppies. It was a very discouraging conversation.

Rescured laboratory beagles seeing daylight for the first time.

Their faces are so wary, barely daring to hope.

Maybe that's why my brother's Sheltie is such a weirdo(he's a sweetheart, but everything does seem brand-new to a disquieting extent)

Oh dear. I can't stop crying about the beagles.

Also, someone on the video commented that it "didn't need the gay music." WTF?

I am home all day with a dog, and I will testify that he spends about 70 percent of the time asleep.

People are weird re: music comment.

Sweet, sweet puppies. I hope they all have found good homes.

I saw a news report on the beagles - they showed them coming out of their crates and walking on grass for the first time. sniff

In regard to the dog - I used to have neighbors who had a dog - a large-ish one - and they always made a big production of how much they loved him and how important he was to them. But most days they'd leave him for 10 to 12 hours and when they did get home, of course he'd had an "accident" and they'd yell at him and hit him. When they had a party - at least once and up to three times a week - they'd put him outside for eight hours or so, tied to a post with no food or water and with a leash so short he could sit or stand in one place - no lying, no moving around. I'm a bitch and I called the Humane Society on them.

But then i sometimes am feeling horrible guilt about how lonely she must feel during the day.

Our dogs sleep ALL DAY. I know because Jason is home with them. We walk them in the morning and then it's naptime. I don't feel bad about leaving them home all day when he is out of town, since I know what is going on.