That’s how life is. Some dogs get treats for doing almost nothing, and some dogs are good dogs and get no treats at all. - W. Bruce Cameron

It wasn’t as much fun as being a doodle dog, but I now knew why these creatures, these human beings, had so fascinated me from the moment I saw them. It was because my fate was inextricably linked with theirs.

Now what? Was I to be reborn over and over, forever? Could a dog have more than one purpose? How was that possible?

This was, I decided, my purpose as a dog, to comfort the boy whenever he needed me. Sometimes