In Dog Years

Life lessons from my reactive dog.

I first saw Merlin on Hinge. A Border Collie in the arms of the person who is now my girlfriend.

I moved in with him a year after we met. We were friends by then, good ones I’d say, but still tentative; we moved carefully around each other. He did not trust me. I did not trust him either. I was wary of his soft growls, the way I sometimes didn’t see them…