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Katy Hall
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Katy Hall
</p>1. When you're about to leave the house and those eyes make you feel like they'll be inconsolable until your return.
Jim Larrison/Flickr (CC by 2.0)2. When every drawer, car and purse contains a lint roller. Or you've just stopped wearing black. (Or white, if your dog is black.)
Grace/Flickr (CC by 2.0)3. When you realize you are very, very close to running out of dog food.
Lisa Yarost/Flickr (CC by 2.0)4. When he decides he needs to poop more than once on your walk, and you only brought one bag.
Ryan Hyde/Flickr (CC by-sa 2.0)5. When she cries to go out and a minute later wants to come back in.
Katy Hall6. When it's spring and you have a new dog hair area rug in every room of the house.
Instagram/emily_p_todd_canning7. When you really, really need to get some work done, and your dog really, really needs to play with you.
paul stumpr/Flickr (CC by-SA 2.0)8. When you stop letting her lick your hand, so she starts licking the furniture instead and makes big smelly wet spots appear all over everything.
Chris Waits/Flickr (CC by 2.0)9. When you can't leave anything on the floor or within reasonable reach, because everything there is FAIR GAME.
Bev Sykes/Flickr (CC by 2.0)10. When you have to convince him that the world will not end and he will not die every time you pull out the vacuum.
Emery Way/Flickr (CC by 2.0)11. When it's cold outside and all he wants to do is sniff around for hours.
Holly Victoria Norval/Flickr (CC by 2.0)12. When you have company over and she won't stop rubbing her butt back and forth on every surface.
star5112/Flickr (CC by-sa 2.0)13. When you actually really did like that shirt/shoe/pillow/antique/wedding cake.
Instagram/meganmolina14. When you accidentally leave food too close to the edge of the table or on a table that's really low.
Instagram/jgr1971115. When she starts doing something painfully adorable and your phone is two seconds too far away to catch it.
Instagram/mimi.molle16. When there's something outside your window that isn't normally there, and the doggie alarm is on high volume.
Mandie S/Flickr17. When you're on vacation and you can't stop wondering if your dog is doing ok wherever she's staying.
Austin Kirk/Flickr (CC by 2.0)18. When she wants to kiss you on the mouth, but her breath is the worst thing ever.
Jelly Dude/Flickr (CC by 2.0)19. When, despite everything, you love your dog so so much that the only thing he can't do perfectly is live forever.
Steve Parker/Flickr (CC by 2.0)