I've Got a Snowy Future

After an extensive Pros & Cons list comparing Vegas, Cedar and Salt Lake as well as lots of thinking and lots of talking with friends and family... A decision has been reached.

I'm moving to Salt Lake City, UT.

The only real downside to this choice is that I can't take my dogs, and - believe me - it was a downside that I thought about very, very carefully. My dogs are like my kids. They are members of my family... But I had to make a choice, and I made one based on these questions:

•  Do I have the time for two dogs?
•  Can I comfortably keep two dogs where I'll be living?
•  Can I afford to care for two dogs?
•  What would be best for Zim and Boo?

It's not an easy thing to realize, but I really just don't think that it's fair to my poor dogs for me to tote them around everywhere I go without really thinking about what's best for them.

My plan in Salt Lake is to get a part-time job and go to school, so I won't have the time my dogs need me to have. I'll be living in an apartment with no yard where they will likely have to be in kennels a lot of the time, so I wouldn't really be able to comfortably keep the dogs. I won't have a job for at least a little while, and once I do get a job it will only be part time and probably minimum wage, so I wouldn't be able to afford caring for two dogs. Not to mention the person I'll be staying with is allergic to dogs.

So, I have to do what's best for me as well as what's best for my dogs.

It's a hard-as-hell choice, but it had to be made.

EDIT:
Boo is coming with me to Salt Lake, at least for a little while to see if she'll fit into my new life. Zim will be staying with my mom. I just can't justify putting Boo through being adopted. She's so sensitive and skittish that I'm afraid she'd become a different, miserable dog. So she's coming with me and we'll see if it works out.