You Know You’re A Real Dog Person When …

How many of the following apply to you? We’d say if you answer “yes” to at least half of them, you qualify as a real dog person!

You know you’re a real dog person when:

1. You sometimes limit your out-of-the-house social activities because you feel guilty leaving your dog home alone.
2. You can sit stone-faced through a movie or TV show where people are being killed — but if someone hurts a dog, you leave the room and burst into tears.
3. You often make special trips to a supermarket to buy cheese sticks and peanut butter — for your dog.
4. When the annoying person you’ve been dodging for months suddenly tells you they just got a puppy, you instantly become their new best friend.
5. You can recognize your dog’s bark among a crowd of dogs.
6. You always leave some food on your plate — just so your dog can lick it.
7. You go to bed earlier than you’d like so you have time to exercise your dog before leaving for work in the morning.
8. Your friend comments on how attractive that man or woman is — but all you notice is the dog they’re walking.
9. You sleep with your knees practically touching your forehead, or your legs hanging off the bed, because your dog likes to spread out.
10. You make do with the couch at night because your dog likes the recliner.
11. When people show you photos of their kids, you politely say, “How nice” — but you “ooh” and “aah” when you look at dog photos.
12. When you see a dog left inside a car in a parking lot on a hot day, you review your formerly pacifistic feelings about the death penalty.
13. When you were a kid and a friend invited you over to play, if they had a dog, you ignored the friend and spent the whole time petting the dog.
14. You love the smell of puppy breath.
15. You’ve  had the worst day of your life and you’ve been snapping at everyone, but the sight of your wagging dog can make you feel less like crap — and can even make you smile.
16. You’ve actually cancelled (or refused to consider) vacations because you couldn’t stand the thought of boarding your dog.
17. When you’ve taken a vacation, you’ve spent an inordinate amount of time worrying if your dog is OK.
18. You know what the Puppy Bowl is.
19. When people ask who your best friend is, you wonder if it’s OK to say it’s your dog.
20. When someone compliments you on your dog, you instantly like them and consider them an intelligent person.
21. When people ask you why you still have that ripped up chair, torn blanket, etc., your answer is, “Because my dog likes it.”
22. You wonder about people who prefer cats!

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