I'm all for the dog-loving, my best friend in teenage years having been my dog, and me still preferring animal over human company any day, and all, BUT... Dude, that guy didn't sound nearly, er, platonic enough about it for comfort! O_o Yikes! -- And why he would need to creep out strangers in the park with that sort of confession is beyond me as well. (I'd probably have been unable to resist asking him whether he meant what I thought he meant. I'm morbidly curious like that.)