Hence why I called it a rat-dog. I had a friend when I was in high school that had this tiny little dog that, when you looked at it, had the same snout as a fruit bat. I used to call it a bat-dog and kept teasing about when it would finally spread its wings and fly.

As they say in a commercial from this past year, if it's smaller than a football, it's not a dog.

I like beagles and they're not 18" and I dig Jack Russell Terriers as well. They're dogs in my book (bigger than footballs).

But my fave is a chocolate lab. A dog in both our books.