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resisting getting a dog   The other person who lives at our
house and I are getting very, very close to probably - maybe,
anyway - getting a dog.  You may have noticed that I have
couched this in extremely cautious terms. That is partly because
we don't do anything too rashly. In fact, any time I actually do
go out and buy something, it is later referred to as 'that time
you went off half-cocked.'  I will have you know I almost always
go off fully cocked, never just half.  After many years of
'debating' this matter, I finally relented a year or two ago
that, should we acquire our own little house beast, I would do
my part in the walking, feeding, petting, talking to, asking
questions of and, yes, loving it.  The length of time we've
spent discussing the pros and cons of dog ownership, really, are
in the same time measurements they use to gauge glacier melting
and progress of peace talks in the Middle East.  Since this is a
relatively new topic for th