doggy style

Even before I realised that this year is the Chinese Year of the Dog -- I don't pay attention to such things, even though all those dog decorations should have been a huge tip off -- I had decided that this year would be the year I fulfilled my lifelong dream of dog ownership.

As I was telling a colleague who was going to buy a terrier from a pet farm that I wanted to go adopt a doggy from the SPCA, I suddenly blurted out a fear I didn't even know I had: "What if I see a really ugly dog and fall in love with it?"