I have always had a lot of nice comments given to me about my dogs.
Stuff like:
-- Your dog(s) are so well behaived, so nice, so smart ...
and so on.
When I tell them thank you and then explain how much time I spend working with them, some ppl seamto be amazed and some even give me one of those "deer in the headlights" looks. Then I draw a comparison to raising kids they look at me like "I dont even spend that much time with my kids" ...
One guy actually SAID that to me, and I told him that that was the reason his kids were in and out of jail all of the time. I dont think he liked it much. But the truth hurts sometimes!!!