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Mmm ... I know what you mean about fashionable dogs, ploenta. I also feel that all animals should have a reasonable amount of green space to run / roam around in. However, there are some people, less fortunate people than others, who have no choice but to live in flats. Often they are elderly and alone, and a dog or cat can be a comforting companion. Fortunately, it's a dilemma that I have not yet had to face.

polenta

It's funny, here in Uruguay I've heard that there is an institution, I think a medical one called BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD. I've heard some of their commercials on the radio. Could it be the same institution?
My neighborhood is "crowded " with dogs and it's an area of buildings. It's a pity for the dogs because I think these pets need gardens and empty spaces and not apartments . When the film about the "101 Dalmatians "was on, dalmatians became very fashionable. It seems breeds people choose depend on fashion as if they were dresses. LOL

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That's a very apt description of a Brit dog owner. You'd swear the dogs understand every word.

Qsilv

High among my favorite memories of England are ones involving dogs. Here are 3--

The sign on the door to Fortnum & Mason's elegant tea-room:
NO DOGS ALLOWED
---unless carried.

Signs all over the steep escalators to the "tube" (underground railway), encouraging you to carry your pet rather than chance its catching its paws in the stair-treads... clarified by simple line drawings, understandable no matter your language, showing a slender woman lugging a HUGE dog in her arms!

The voice of our enormous milkman (a burly fellow who essentially worked out with liquid-filled weights 9 hours a day), suddenly rising from baritone to an oddly sweet squeakiness as he asked his equally solid-muscled German Shepherd, did she want to "go walkies??"

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Dragon

That's funny Login, in Canada Blue Cross is a supplementary health plan. A lot of employers offer Blue Cross as a health benefit for their employees.

Also, as someone who works in a Vet Clinic, I highly recommend Pet Insurance to anyone who has a dog (or a cat for that matter). These insurances are realitivly cheap and sure come in handy if you need them. We've seen several pets whose owners would not be able to afford emergency treatments if they didn't have it. In fact we have a puppy with Parvo in the clinic right now and they have the luxary to say do whatever you have to because they got Pet Insurance for her right away.