it's too easy to own a dog.

when you bring your dog to doggie day care Saturday-Sunday from 6:30 am to 7:00 pm, you know you're a

LAZY AMERICAN.

oh sure, we will feed your dog for you, morning and night (and maybe lunch too).  we will even give them a bath!  so when you take your pampered pet home, they will be tired and clean! hooray for you!  you now have NOTHING to do with your pet, except to finance his/her expensive lifestyle. 

PEOPLE!

I feel like owning a pet should mean something.  taking good care of your dog, yourself.  not that i'm not happy i have a paying job.  (actually, i'm not so happy, but thats a different point entirely.)  but the fact that places like the one i work at actually even exist is a sorry state indeed.  owning a pet is about responsibility.  if i have learned nothing else in my childhood, it would be that. every time i begged my mother or father for a pet, they required a full amount of research done before said pet could be acquired. (back when they even thought about getting us pets.)  i remember spending a good amount of time looking up websites and reading books about cockatiels, and then finally having my own beautiful bird named Piemur (later renamed Sweetcheeks when she started laying eggs) when i could handle the responsibility and all that it entailed. (the same method however, didn't work for ferrets. i read an entire book about them, but am still ferretless). take some amount of responsibility back, people of the rich world.  bathe your own dogs.  take them for a walk. take them to the beach. spend some dang time with them. or don't own them at all.