The Promise of a Puppy
Valentine has been with me for almost 6 years now, and during that time her early life experiences and trauma caught up with her. She changed from a happy, playful, and social puppy into an adult who was quick to aggressively over-react to other dogs' misteps, even attacking her brothers with whom she coexisted peacefully only a year prior. So there were fights and blood, nothing too serious, but enough that after the boys passed in 2025 I gave her 9 months to decompress from