BY EILEEN BRADY
THE NEWS JOURNAL OF WILMINGTON, OHIO ​

Hurry up. Get to the next sentence. Time’s a wastin’. 
We’re a nation in a hurry, and we don’t want to wait. We don’t want to wait in traffic, and we don’t want to spend time on hold on the phone.
And we especially don’t want to wait on line in the grocery store.
Almost one in four people in a recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll picked the grocery checkout as the line where their patience is most likely to run out. 
“If you ask the typical person, ‘Do you feel more time-poor or money-poor?’ the answer almost always is time-poor,” says Paco Underhill, founder of Envirosell, a New York-based research firm. “We walk in the door with the clock ticking with various degrees of loudness in our heads. And if I get to the checkout and if I have the perception it’s not working efficiently, often that clock gets even louder.”

BY EILEEN BRADY
THE NEWS JOURNAL OF WILMINGTON, OHIO ​

The problem isn’t dogs, it’s people.
The dogs, of course, suffer at the hands of people. Or they end up homeless because of people. Or abused by people. Or starved by people. Or tied to trees by people.
So when I offer to volunteer at a shelter, I tell the people in charge that I really don’t want to deal with the people who come through the door.
If only it worked out that way.
I’ve seen children sobbing in their cars as their parents bring their dogs in to give them up because A.) they’re moving; B.) the dog chewed up something or C.) the dog barks a lot. 
News flash: Dogs chew. Dogs bark. Dogs whine. Dogs pee. Dogs shed. Dogs knock things over with their exuberance.
And dogs, in fact, can actually move with you. That one’s my personal favorite: “We’re moving. We can’t keep our dog.”