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For the single dog owner, the ideal relationship has room for three.
By Maureen Kochan
Stephanie Alleman was looking for Mr. Right. But too often, the Maryland dog lover found herself with Mr. Barely-Right-Now.
“The one missing part of my life had been a relationship with someone who understands the connection I have with my dogs,” says Alleman, who owns Tibetan Spaniels Travis, Kiri, and Toby.
The wakeup call came when a former boyfriend gave Alleman an ultimatum: It was either him or the dogs.
Alleman chose the dogs.
“He finally realized that the dogs were family to me,” Alleman says. “That wasn’t going to change.”
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