Our puggle Scout with Yossarian, who we found abandoned in a local park when his eyes were still shut and hand raised. He's ridiculously huge now, but at the time he was only big enough to stomp around for about 15 minutes at a time before he needed a nap.

I've definitely heard this criticism of Ariel a lot, and I do see where you're coming from. But Eric fell in love with Ariel before her mutilation, when she rescued him and sang next to him on the beach (in the same, "I don't know you, but you're the only one for me" kind of way she fell for him on seeing him).…