I’m not sure Stephen and I even liked each other very much when we first met. My great friend Robyn Zeiger, who’s a brilliant therapist and specializes in pet loss, told me that it’s best not to get the same breed, gender, or color as my Bob Slobbers, the smartest most intuitive dog in the world. Bob was a mighty eighty-plus pounds of black lab mix, a proud boy whose strength held me together when we both lost Billy. Two years later when I was in a position to get another com