On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:51:54 +0100, "ARW"
wrote:

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I was brought up with Labadors and Border terriers as pets.

What I call 'proper dogs'. Anything from the working / hound family
even including things like std poodles (along with Dalmatians aren't
breeds you see very often these days) work for me. ;-)

I would love to have a dog but it would be left on it's own all day and so I
cannot have one.

Is the right answer. Well, you could, as long as it was either old and
slept most the time or you had someone who could give it a good walk
midday.

We were both at work when we had three dogs but one (or both) of us
were generally close enough to be able to give them the best part of
an hours walk every lunchtime.

My cat has no idea I am at work as it is asleep most of the
day.

Pointless things, well, unless it's a 'guard cat'? ;-)

Cheers, T i m