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Subject: [TUHS] Shower of Dogs.
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Hi,

Doug wrote:
> Then, while there were several pilots among us,
> there was only one shower of dogs

What's a shower of dogs refer to in this context?

I've been mulling it over for a while.  I checked Wiktionary for shower
and dogs and nothing obvious pops out as to what the phrase may mean in
American to this English speaker.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.