From the coalface The canine panacea

摘要

It seems all the rage to describe the health benefits of owning a dog, so I thought I'd add my own story to the genre.Selkie, a chocolate labrador-cocker spaniel cross, has now been with our family for 3 of the 5 months she's been alive. We'd been telling the children we would get a dog for so long they'd grown bored of the idea and we probably could have got away with binning the whole thing. My partner, however, grew up with dogs and, to him, our family would never be complete without one. We duly schlepped to Wales and picked up a tiny, brown bundle of exuberance. A little chocolate drop of trouble who has been challenging and adoring us ever since.