Dog's Dinner

So, Mrs Muse wants to get a dog.
She spends all day at home during the week while I work and the kids are at school, so it'd be company for her, but that's not her primary motivation.

See, she's seen tv and news reports about the wonderful way some autistic kids react to dogs. I've seen them too, there are some amazing transformations, and I'd love to see the kids reacting that well.

But there're no guarantees, and too many costs.

See, it's not just their house, it's mine too, and I couldn't live with a dog. They smell, and they shed hair everywhere, and the dribble on you, and they shit on the carpets... I try to look at it as a balance of the benefit to the kids against the inconveniences of having a dog, but I know myself better than that.

I have to look at it as a balance between me being there for the kids or the dog being there for the kids, and I hope they're better off for me than for Fido.

I hope.