OntarioSheltie
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Exactly!
I was joking with my mother the other day, in my usual dead pan manner. My mother has the same sense of humor as me and is also a huge animal lover, so I was shocked when this time she thought I was serious.
I've been vacuuming up a storm, since Toby's black fur seems to be everywhere. I told my mother that I'd decided that I simply could not keep Toby (our rescue that we adopted about a month ago), because he was shedding just too much! That I could not deal with the extra fur.
I expected her to laugh at me, but instead my mother was quiet for a minute, then said, 'Seriously! You'd give him up because he sheds too much! Poor Toby!'
I don't know who was more shocked, her that I said that or me that she believed what I said. I was a little insulted and said 'Of course not! I was joking! There is more fur but we could NEVER give him up because of it!
My parents are so taken with Toby that they said they would take him if for some reason we couldn't keep him.
I could never give up my fur kids, even our newest Toby. They're as much a part of me as if they were my biological children.
It drives me slightly crazy when I see her come into my house and inspect the carpets for the first minute or 2 and then wipe the couch before she sits down. SHHEEEESH!... It's a bit of pet hair... it's not going to bite you!! 
