text:  Okay, so what about professional training or training in general? Is that important for our animals? I mean, does it really matter if you've got a dog that hasn't been trained? You know, I think depending on the dog and depending on your lifestyle. If you don't ever take the dog out and you don't ever have people over, then okay. And some dogs are just really, really hard to train. We had a Basset Hound and they rank, you know, there's a list from one to 78 or whatever. And I think Basset Hound was pretty much at the bottom.