[sweetwater]

Cicero, it's not my hangup - I was teasing about the black fur and the furniture. To borrow an expression from Dave Frei, "we consider dog fur a condiment at our house". My experiences dealing with the public has been that solid black dogs and cats are adopted less readily than their buddies. btw, we used to undo some of that hex by giving them bright bandanas. It worked. I don't know why.