As one who owns a pitbull who had an abscessed tooth, I'll suggest you find a different description of nasty behavior. This pooch is as sweet as the day is long. She was a stray, injured a glancing blow in traffic (the vet guesses) and when she bounced she hit her face on the road. All of the top teeth between her canines were broken, and when I took her in to be spayed and have the teeth attended to surgically a month had passed. We only learned of the abscess at the time of the surgery, there was no hint in her behavior.

There are many parts of Nevada that are beautiful, but they tend to be the parts where there isn't all of the built up gambling activity. I was considering doing a Ph.D. at UN Reno, and it was possible to find nice affordable housing outside of that brightly-lit 24/7 gambling environment. It didn't take long to get out of town to the wild areas around it. The most incredible body of water I think I've ever seen is Pyramid Lake. I've never seen water that exact color before, and when one considers the source, Lake Tahoe, there is a natural history/human history story (the damming of the Truckee river so white farmers can grow hay on marginal land while the lake and the Paiute Indian reservation around it and the amazing fish in it languish) that is worth telling.

SRS