Man's Best Friend

So I've been thinking a lot about getting a dog. The problem is that I'm not patient and I'm lazy to try to train the dog not to poop in my house. So I had the brilliant idea to adopt a seeing eye dog dropout. There's various reasons why they drop out such as barking all the time, sniffing other dog's butts, etc. This way, I can get a dog that's already pre-trained (to some extent), neutered, received all of its shots, so on and so forth. The problem is that it can take anywhere from 6 months to 4 years to finally adopt a dropout, if at all. The wait is long because there is an order of priority to adopt a dog. First, the dog is offered to the family that did the basic training for the dog. Then they are made available to families that have special needs.

As a healthy able-bodied single man, it sounds like if I put my name on the waitlist now, I may really be blind by the time I get a seeing eye dog dropout. Y'know, retinas and all. Then my new dog will probably lead me into traffic because that's the part of the training program that he failed. If I finally decide to get a dog, I already know what I will name him. I want to call him Mojo...after Homer's helper monkey in the Simpsons. Yes, I will teach him to steal food for me, feed him lots and lots of donuts, and use those computers that read aloud typed text too.


Pray for Mojo

Learn more about adopting a seeing eye dog here.