It would never have occurred to me to take him to my vet if I had another option. But I'd watched enough TV to know how dangerous hospitals are when you're being stalked by killers.
I met Mike Lang when I adopted Addison—over the stringent objections of my mother. She doesn’t like anything that licks its butt or smells hers. Mike doesn’t mind either of these things. He’s easy going and a bit like his doggy patients, large and shaggy with dark eyes, a slow, deep voice and endless patience. He needed that patience when he got my dog and me. I'm the first dog owner in our family. Not a natural at dog owning, I had a lot of questions which Mike answered without any indication that he thought they were dumb. I like that in a man. He’s also patient with the strays I have a bad habit of picking
