Does everyone have a dog nowadays?

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As I've mentioned before, I teach English composition, and a couple of days ago I showed this blog to my students as an example of a topic-driven blog (they have an extra-credit opportunity to create one and keep it going during the summer term).  I was kind of surprised when I got questions about dogs and diabetes (specifically, blood sugar monitoring) rather than the questions about blogging that I was expecting.  Before I took a few minutes to deal with the off-topic questions, I asked for a show of hands from the dog owners in the class.  About two-thirds raised their hands.  That's a lot of dogs.  
As I was driving home after class, I wondered how many of those dogs have health insurance.  I'll have to ask.
 

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