if i didn't have dogs.

If I didn't have dogs...

...I could go away for the weekend and worry more about gas money than the cost of petsitting.

...I wouldn't have needed to replace shoes, books, or my cell phone.

...dirty floors wouldn't be inevitable when it rains.

...I could take up the whole bed by myself.

...I wouldn't feel just a bit guilty when someone walks in my house wearing black.

But if I didn't have dogs...

...there would be no one watching out the window for me to come home.

...I'd look crazy talking to myself all the time.

...I'd be a lot more selfish and self-centered.

...I wouldn't know the joy of curling up with them in the corner of my sectional, with the afghan my mom made me.