From October 2021, originally published on FetLife

Nineteen months ago I left the UK for what I thought was going to be a very brief period of leave while we got through COVID. I literally and naively thought that three months would go by and all would be good.

Nope.

I built a relationship with a doggo starting in August 2019 and we clicked really well. As his Handler I started planning a few things out as I saw heaps of potential in this pup, and had started to ramp things up, all of which fell apart in a blink of an eye.

This weekend we reconnected, nineteen months to the day we last saw each other.

I am proud of the man and doggo he’s become in those nineteen months of hell for him.

It was pretty gut wrenching not being able to follow through with the plans I had for 2020, to help him through the COVID pandemic in person; but after this trip, we have a new opening, new opportunities, and an agreement on seeing each other again well into 2023 and hopefully beyond.