My God. We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

The title is a quote from Robin Williams.

Another little note for tonight:

Every once in a while people look at me funny when I introduce them to my dog, Toby. The truth is I had never even HEARD of the show "Roots" until after I had named the dog. My mother was the first one to point out the "correlation" to me openly, and since then it's come up quite a few times. I even know one person who openly refers to him as my "little negro dog." I've had another person comment that I should have named him Kunta Kinte.

That being said, it came to me in the car, with my dogs on my lap, that we are headed north with our black dog named Toby to stay at the Plantation.... How is it possible not to have a racial thought in this situation? At least we weren't headed South.

For the record, I don't believe myself to be a racist. I have no problems with anyone of any skin type, gender, sexual preference, etc. I'm simply commenting on the number of people who are putting WAY too much thought into my dog's name!