What every potential dog owner should  know
in advance:

All dogs know how to suck in their cheeks and look starved when they beg at the dinner table -- even when they've just eaten your house shoes.

All dogs know how to slowly pace off every square inch of the back yard when they have to "go out" on a cold winter night -- especially when you are waiting out there in the rain in your pajamas.

All dogs go deaf when you are out on the porch calling them at midnight. They miraculously recover their hearing the instant you touch the electric can opener.

All dogs know the sports section is the tastiest part of the newspaper.

All Dogs feel a moral obligation to greet all guests with a wet nose in their lap -- even if they are not making a lap.

No Dogs ever lick themselves in embarrassing places -- like the dining room -- except when you have the boss and his wife over for dinner.

All dogs know instinctively they should breed in private -- or in the church parking lot at noon on Sunday.

All dogs know how  to pull the tin squeaker out of their toy rubber frog and swallow it -- and do assorted squeaks all the way to the vet's.