While I understand the sentiment behind it, buying a dog is a big mistake! These doctors are never home…who is going to walk the dog on a consistent basis with the crazy hours they keep? A cat can be just as much fun, and a whole lot less work. With a perpetual feeder and waterer and a litter box, the cat can go for days…but a dog needs someone to let it out twice a day! And Izzy seems more like a cat person anyways.
I felt the same thing when I saw the dog. How nice, they’ll play with it about an hour a day and then lock it up in the house for the rest of the time. Maybe they’ll get smart and hire a neighborhood kid to take care of it while they’re gone or put it in doggie daycare.
Has anyone else noticed how the show seems to be turning into the “How Many Named Guest Stars Can We Fit In An Episode?” Show?
Every time Burke is shown he burns a hole through my tv screen. So hot. He is so forgiving of Christina’s complete cluelessness about the how to have a relationship. He makes her breakfast and she leaves without a kiss or a goodbye?
Loved the end though where she did actually sit down and to eat with him. He was right when he said last episode that he knows her. He does know her and more importantly, he understands her.
Burke is beyond smoking hot. Plus he’s so magnetic, he becomes the focus of every single scene he’s in. Just amazing.
I just suspend disbelief re the dog. Plus a lot of other stuff. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be able to enjoy the show. I just regard it as all fun make-believe, like I do with courtroom dramas, not a single one of which is anything like reality; it’s easier to just turn off the critical section of my mind for an hour of pure escapism. And lots and lots of hot, hot, hot Burke. 
So funny - I was thinking the same thing about the dog. What the hell - they’re not even home enough to get sleep much less take care of themselves, or a dog. But yes - I will let it go so I can enjoy the show. Scenes for next week’s were good eh? The scene at Joe’s?
So can I make you all jealous? I met Isaiah Washington in person when he came into my store while in Cleveland filming “Welcome to Collinwood”. I engraved a gift for him to give his wife for her birthday, and he was the sweetest thing, so excited about picking her out a gift. And he gave his home address and phone number…I carried the workorder around in my pocket for about a year. He came across as a really nice, down-to-earth sweetheart of a guy. And yes, smokin’ hot.
Cha right – like that’s possible when he’s in so many scenes with Sandra freakin’ Oh.
Okay, I confess, the universe has conspired to make me crush hard on Sandra Oh ever since Double Happiness, which weirdly mirrored a relationship I’d had five years previously* and had, in hindsight, totally screwed the pooch on.
*down to the point of having scenes filmed in a (small, dog-walking, kiddie-minding type) park by her damned house where we used to meet to avoid being sussed out by her family.
But seriously, she is fabulous. Yeah baby, live in a nest of soiled laundry and eat Dad’s crumbliest chocolate chip cookies in bed, if you wanna. Who the hell’d even blink?
Just prayin’ on that divorce, eh? I think we’ve all been there. 
I think they have a yard at their house.
The only problem I had is that the “oooh a puppie!” ending was a cop out from the “dead baby bummer” they had be working on for the first 58 minutes.
I admire your restraint, kittenblue, at having the option to become a Real Stalker but declining to act on it.
But I’d have the workorder framed and hanging on my wall forever, personally…
That is impressive restraint…