I am dog people. Always have been. I love the paws, the eyebrows, the way a dog can stare at you as you eat andmake you feel guilty. The only drawback, the one great flaw in the whole magnificent arrangement, is that their lives are much too short.

Which is why I could get behind having Snoopy as my lifelong pet. Snoopy is the dog who goes on forever… forever napping on the roof of his little red house, forever climbing into the cockpit of his imagination, forever returning from some moonlit adventure just in time for supper.

Snoopy seems smart, a little solitary, and endlessly inventive, the sort of lifelong friend who would understand when I wanted company and when I simply wanted someone nearby. He might not always chat back, but he seems open to listening. Honestly, that already puts him ahead of quite a few people I know…