RubyC if you are whacky ... then we all are!! Patrick nor I can bear to leave Toto alone ... we plan everything around her and if she can't go, we don't!! Rarely, unless it's an
absolute necessity do we ever leave her alone for any reason! Usually just one of us will go to the grocery or other shopping errands where she isn't allowed ... otherwise we only shop where she is welcomed also! We had to go to an important dinner [work related] and were late ... I appoligized because I had to feed Toto her dinner and I saw some of those "looks"!!

We didn't care ... we mingled ... had some drinks ... ate ... watched the clock ... and left early!!!

I thought everybody did that!!