"Love 'em, but I'd have to be in a different circumstance, to keep a dog," she muses. "My place's up on the third floor of my landlady's house. Even with the nature preserve that her property backs up to, a dog'd be cooped up when I'm not there."

The main circumstances that would have to be is the sheer amount of time she isn't there. Dealing with vampires on top of the work schedule of a baker leaves her little time to sleep, much less take care of a dog.