<human>: throwaway for this one...my girlfriend (F22) and I (M23) (dating 2.5 years now) are out to look at dogs today and possibly get one, much to my girlfriend's great joy.  She's had her heart set on a yorkie-poo type of dog for years now, and the place we were going looked to have a few left.  Sadly, the dogs that were left for yorkie-poos were either a) sick or b) nasty ugly (too much poodle or something).

Instead, she falls in love with this little adorable purebred yorkie.  He's playing with her, she's wooing...everything looks great.  Then the owner tells us the price...close to $600.  I just started my first job, and my girlfriend is still looking for employment, so this is a huuuuge amount of money.  We go into town (don't have $600 cash at the time, was expecting around $350 at most for the dog), get the cash, and talk about it.  I say that I just don't feel great spending that much money on a dog when only one of us is working, etc.  She surprisingly agrees, and I call the owner and let him no.  No hard feelings, we'll just keep looking for another dog....

Nope.  The way back down to our apartment was chilly at best.  She snapped a few lines about not speeding because "a ticket would be about a puppy", and has said about 3 words tonight besides sighing and saying "my shirt smells like a puppy".

I'm at a loss about how to handle this; I was surprised that she was ok with not getting the dog right now, but now I'm afraid she's thinking I'll never be ok getting a dog/etc. In addition, I have no idea how to counter that or what I'm afraid will be large number of cold dog-related replies that I"m currently speechless to.  Any ideas on how I can talk to her about this would be greatly appreciated!

Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?
<bot>: Went to look at dogs, got sticker shock at price of different breed girlfriend fell in love with.  Didn't get dog, not sure how to talk with disappointed girlfriend.