But a dog's life might just be an improvement on her own, says Zoe Tay.
For such people, at least, it still seems to be a dog's life.
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Gossip columnist Cindy Adams, shopping her new book, Living a Dog's Life, on NBC's Today Show, gave me a hunch.
Launching its annual A Dog is for Life, Not Just for Christmas campaign, the NCDL said its rehoming centres were already running out of places.
Some mutts are not so lucky -- Quest joins actress Allison Janney at the New Leash On Life dog rescue center, where the doe-eyed inmates wait for adoption.
The Epping Forest MP argued that new laws would have "very little effect" on responsible dog owners but would make life "very difficult" for those who do not look after their dogs properly.
As his win in Australia proved, even though it was ultimately taken away for a technical infringement, there is life in the old dog yet.
Haatchi, an Anatolian shepherd dog, won first place in the Friends for Life category at the Birmingham NEC event.
After a few rounds of cards by candlelight, it became clear that life on the 10th floor with a dog was about to get less fun.
Haatchi is one of five dog "heroes" competing in the public vote for the Friends for Life award at next month's Crufts 2013.
Nothing about my life these days makes me an especially good candidate for having a dog.
Mark, 46, apparently took his own life in his Manhattan apartment this morning by hanging himself with a dog leash.
But animals have real moral standing, and they're a real responsibility once you've let one into your life, and you can't so casually think about killing a dog.
Yet his anger at what he sees as the cluelessness of the governing class hasn't dampened his zest for life, or his sense of wonder at such transformations as the tatty dog track of his youth giving way to a resplendent Olympic stadium.
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Yet there were times when he felt his life had been futile, and the mood of despondency that had sometimes come upon him in his most active years - which, following Samuel Johnson, Churchill called the "black dog" - seems to have been with him in much of his later life.
Boston Dynamics rose to fame with its four-legged cargo robot Big Dog, (also captured in a YouTube sensation here) which shows an uncannily life-like ability to walk over terrain and recover its footing even when it slips or is kicked.
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Mr. Brannaman's techniques stress kindness (how you treat a horse reflects how you treat your family and other people in your life) combined with firmness. (Like Cesar Millan, TV's "Dog Whisperer, " he teaches humans how to be an animal's parent, not its friend.) Ms. Meehl's own techniques include astute showmanship and, in one instance, a shocking illustration that some horses remain immune to humane ministrations.
The dog-sized bot, only 73 pounds (33 kilograms), will look for direct evidence of existing life, whether combing the Martian atmosphere for methane, a possible biological byproduct, or checking rocks for a form of carbon favored by cells.
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