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Because, really, what else is there once you've adopted one of these things? You leave the house for more than an hour and you fret, it rains and you wonder how to tire him out so he'll sleep, etc. etc. When the weather cooperates, we've enjoyed our time at the Niskayuna Dog Park -- an interesting mix of dog people there in the evenings. Young couples drinking beer with their Golden Doodles, older GE retirees with their sports cars and Boxers or Labs, and what I've labeled Dog Women, divorcees who replaced their needy husbands with needy dogs. Yeager tries to get them all to run with him. He's not overly aggressive unless the other dog wants to play bite-the-neck, which seems to be a common canine leisure time activity. Everyone freaks out for a bit but when no blood appears, they go back to their lounge chairs.