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**Ken Fortenberry[_2_]** · April 17th, 2008, 10:00 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:
Ken Fortenberry wrote:
... I'm going to get my first ever pure bred dog
in a few weeks and I'm going to train her myself. I've never
had any dog that wasn't a shelter mutt and I loved them dearly
but this time I went with a Labrador Retriever with a pedigree.

Elitist.

Yeah, I'm feeling a little bit of liberal white guilt. ;-)

It's hard to adopt a puppy from our local shelter. The puppies
are adopted so quickly you have to visit the shelter two or
three times a week to be sure you're one of the first to see
them. If you do happen to go to the shelter on the day the
puppies arrive you're only going to get a half hour or so in
a socializing room to make a decision you have to live with
for 11-12 years. We were lucky with Kipper the Hound but this
time around I wanted the predictability of a pedigree.

--
Ken Fortenberry