I'm not quite sure when it happened nor how I allowed it to happen, but I have fallen madly in love with my next-door neighbor. She is Black. She is gorgeous and the sweetest thing I ever met.

She just moved in a couple of months ago, but we made friends rather quickly and it progressed from there. She is at my house most days. She is usually waiting on the front porch for me when I get up in the mornings.

It's strange though. I think she likes my husband better than she likes me. I don't know why...maybe it's just a female thing.

Our little boy hates her guts! He attacks her every time he gets close to her. I don't dare touch her when he is around. I'm afraid he might really hurt her, although he is to little to do her much harm.

Maybe it's just jealousy that makes him act that way. Then again, it could be because he has been neutered. Maybe if his male parts were working, he would like her better.

He's a little dog. No...No...I don't mean he is ugly...I mean he is a SMALL dog. A Pekingese. No, I'm not gay and I'm certainly not prejudiced...my next-door neighbor is a dog too. A beautiful big dog. Or maybe a puppy. I don't know how old she is, but I don't think she has seen her sixth month yet.

She is a mixed breed. I know she is part Chow, because her tongue is black and I am just guessing that the other parts are Newfoundland and Lab.

I don't know what her name is as we have never been formally introduced. I just call her Beauty (from Black Beauty). I know that the original BB was a horse, but hey...who knows. She may be as big as one by the time she is grown.

I had Gizzi...my Pekingese...neutered when he was six months old. I am wondering now, had I not DE-sexed my Gizzi, and they had liked one another...what kind of grand puppies might I have had??? Newpekechows? Pekechowlands? Or maybe a Newfoundchowenease!!!

Maybe I was right in the first place. I'm not old enough to become a Grandbitch and I certainly didn't want to spend my retirement years raising a bunch of Grandpuppies. I just hope Beauty's owner feels the same way.

I hope, if they continue to allow her to run loose, that they will not let her become the mother of a hundred, unwanted, Newfoundbullabcolliehoundlandshepard puppies!!!  Maybe I should recommend, to them, a cheap form of birth control for dogs. It's called a leash!