[align=justify][color=green][font=verdana]I have never really liked yorkies... all the ones I have known have always been temperamental and snappy. Besides, I prefer dogs which you can get messy with or take for long dog walks on the countryside without a lead.
The family dog is a Springer Spaniel and is 12 years old... but you wouldn't have guessed. In fact, a professional pedigree breeder was very impressed with him - thought he was 4-5 years old, even.
Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand cliacteric,
How many mice and rats hast in thy days
Destroy'd? - How many tit bits stolen? Gaze
With those bright languid segments green, and prick
Those velvet ears - but pr'ythee do not stick
Thy latent talons in me - and upraise
Thy gentle mew - and tell me all thy frays
Of fish and mice, and rats and tender chick.
Nay, look not down, nor lick thy dainty wrists -
For all the wheezy asthma, - and for all
Thy tail's tip is nick'd off - and though the fists
Of many a maid have given thee many a mail,
Still is that fur as soft as when the lists
In youth thou enter'dst on glass bottled wall.
Okay, so I saw this picture and instantly thought, "well, I better post this here and hope Circe doesn't kill me" So for the record, Do not open this spoiler Circe, please!