>>>I prefer to think of them as independent as opposed to the irritating chuminess of your average dog. Dogs must be the most stupid animals man could have adopted as a pet. Don't look after you cat for a few weeks at the end you still have a cat. Don't look after you dog for a few weeks and at the end its either dead or ready to eat you.
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>>One dog managed to get lost and still return home, and guess what - it's a whole industry now. The book was a bestseller, they made a few movies, a TV series...
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>I'm amazed the truth about lassie never came out. the cocaine, the hookers, the owner beating. Hollywood really used to look after its own.

You probably know there were many Lassies. Most of them male.