Waiting patiently to hear the outcome of this…
>taps fingers on the desk<
Not filthy rich, but debt-free and making a bit more than I spend. Right now I’m spending about $350/month in pet expenses. Admittedly, it would be nice if I wasn’t spending $200 for meds for the heart failure dog and the hypothyroid dog. I probably shouldn’t get another dog until me terminally ill dog dies. No pet (or child) is a 100% positive experience, but weighing all the pros and cons against each other, the pets are definitely a large plus in my life.
I haven’t contacted the rescue with the dog yet. I’m still trying to make up my mind. I may write and just ask to meet him. I’d never take an animal sight unseen anyway.
StG
The add isn’t working for me! I wanna see!
I totally feel you on the wanting more dogs than one really needs, though. We had two dogs, and two dogs is a very good number of dogs. But they keep finding us. We’d foster one, and think, oh! This dog is perfect, we should definitely keep this one, too. And we would, but then the perfect home would come along and we’d let him go. Somehow, even though three is not as practical as two with walking them and whatnot, I’m happier with three dogs in the house, so when we found Olive a few months ago, pregnant and abandoned in the sugarcane fields, we took her in and I really, really want to keep her.
And the thing that gets me is that the whole rescuing animals thing is kind of zero sum game. There are X number of homes available at any time. That’s how many dogs get to live/thrive. If you increase the number of homes available, you’ve really saved a life, you know?
Right now we’re constrained by the fact that we’re moving soon to god knows where, and we’re in a rented duplex. When we finally get back to the States and have our land (14 acres) and our house, all bets are off.
So, I guess I think you should get another dog. 
The ad is gone. Maybe he’s been adopted. It’s just as well, perhaps, but I feel mournful.
StG