Uptight and Need a Cure? Get a Puppy

We really weren't even looking for a dog, he found us. The wife and I had been thinking about getting a dog for a couple of years, but each time the subject came up we talked ourselves out of it. We made excuses like "It would be too much hassle", and "It would make us give up to much freedom". The real underlying issue for me was simple-I'm anal. I like things a certain way, and in a particular order, and having a dog would definitely complicate that part of me. Things have a certain place where they belong, and a certain way that they must be, and throwing a dog into that mix would surely change all of that and send my OCD world into a tailspin.

Then one day it happened. We're sitting at dinner with some friends and we here the question that would forever mess up my perfect little deranged world. "Know anyone who wants a dog?" She asked. Me, being completely out of my mind at the time replied "Why, who's dog are we talking about?"

Then the whole process begins. We hear how he's not in the best of situations, and that he needs to go to a good home where he'll be taken care of and loved, and then I hear the words that make me seriously contemplate this crazy idea of getting a dog, "He's free".

Now we're in too deep to back out. There is no turning back. Okay, so maybe we did have a couple of days to think about it, but for some reason my mind was already made up at that dinner table that we were going to get this dog. Of course I did talk to the wife and get her thoughts on the subject, but I knew sitting at the table that night, that I had just single-handedly ruined my life- or so I thought.

Shortly thereafter, Brock, the White German Shepherd entered my perfect little put together life. I guess I should have said previously put together life. So all of you fellow anal-retentive, partially obsessive compulsive people out there, I know something that can help cure your problem, at least a little bit-a puppy!