Dates -- and dogs -- of L.A.

I thought Maria Elena Fernandez’s column was great on “Sam” (“Date, Date, Date ... Bingo,” Aug. 28). I can totally relate to his napper/e-mailer and dog lover. Girls I’ve gone out with inevitably start e-mailing me their PR gigs, whatever they want to promote, but these women don’t want much of anything. Then there are the dog lovers. One woman lured me home from a club where she had taken her service dog because of epilepsy only to tell me once inside her apartment that the whole thing was a hoax, that she just loved her dog too much.

Sam is not alone. Let him know.

Josh Paris

West Los Angeles