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Elin Strong's avatar

I kid you not, I went on your substack last night to see if I had missed this letter because I couldn't WAIT to read your take on this and it did not disappoint!!! As someone with 3-month-old and 2-year-old humans AND a doodle who has been driving me insane for the last, um, two years....thank you for putting words to the emotional turbulence of pet ownership in early motherhood. *DISCLAIMER TO ALL WHO READ THIS COMMENT: I STILL LOVE MY DOG, OK???

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Amanda Aaron 🇨🇦's avatar

That was so good. ♥️ I honestly clicked in for the sole purpose of looking at dog photos and ended up engrossed and reading the whole thing!

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Charlotte Stephens's avatar

This is beautiful. It sounds like you love your dog very much, and are just overstimulated. And that is FINE. My dog is simply a bit annoying, we have no such lovely moments after she's been annoying, she just carries on annoying me 😂 (she's very much my husband's dog, she has no time for me either - I take good care of her out of duty and because she is a very good girl, but we're not close pals by any stretch)

Loved this post x

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