I know that about the Irish. My ex and I went to an IW show in Lexington...over 400 of them in the show, many staying at the same hotel. I learned about their short life-span. But OMG they're so gentle and cute and HUGE. It makes me almost cry thinking about losing one so relatively young. I fell in love with them the first year I saw the Westminster Dog Show (I'd stayed home from work...YEARS ago, and caught it...for a few years after that I'd plan days off to watch it. Before interwebz, of course.)
I'll probably never be in the right situation for dog-owning anyway.
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