Colonic Irritation!

In October 2020, my daughter Simran, aged 20, presented a 16-slide deck on "why our family needs a dog."The deck covered everything from "needing something to love other than Netflix" to how a dog would make us all walk and get healthy, as I was "looking more like Homer Simpson than Homer Simpson."I was told that I was the last obstacle (her actual words) and I argued that I didn't want a dog as it would become my dog, and I had already parented enough with her and her brother Kieran.I was overruled and awaited my fate.Two months later, just before Christmas, Milo arrived, and from the moment we met I knew I was in trouble. He somehow knew I was the weak link, so he made me his human. We should have named him Shadow, as that's what he became to me.A year later he started acting strangely around me, barking, softly clawing and licking my belly in a comforting way.That was the moment the dog I didn't think I wanted ended up saving my life . . .