Today I saw a lady with five dogs

[erastes]

Why is it that people with many dogs aren’t “the mad dog lady”?

I also saw a man with two bassets. I had to restrain myself from leaping out of the car and dognapping them.

Comments

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but when you're walking five dogs, you'd better be leading the pack or you're going to wind up with leashes wrapped round your legs and probably at least one unhappy shoulder socket. That level of leadership is pretty powerful.

It could also be that a person might assume a woman with 5 dogs is a professional pet-sitter. It's a line of work I think about sometimes, when the internet wank gets intense. Compared to people, dogs are eminently rational.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Very true!