Thanks for all the constructive and not-so-constructive comments they are all appreciated (even the guff about Buddhist swans – do you idiots not know they are all Christian fundamentalists and members of the KKK, hence the uniforms and the persecution suffered by the ugly duckling!).
I now agree that the idea of having a dog in the office probably wouldn’t work in here and am going back to my original plan of winning the lottery, quitting work and getting a dog or I’ll just have to wait for retirement :|