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YOUR EYES AND PICTURE THE IDEAL AMERICAN
FAMILY:
Mom, dad, the house with the manicured lawn, the sport utility
vehicle—loaded with 3 children and their soccer equipment—and,
of course, the family dog.
In
this picture of perfection, the dog is usually a retriever
of some sort. Friendly, healthy and loyal, he’s the perfect
dog who always has enough energy to play Frisbee in the backyard,
but not so much energy that he feels compelled to chew up
your new $200 loafers.
If
you have a dog, you already know that this scenario is, of
course,
pure Madison Avenue fantasy. So the question, then, is this:
What makes the perfect family dog? “That depends on the
family,”
says Tripp Wood, CEO of labpups.com, Inc., and
