The adoption was actually a cat. She was a stray kitten found eating out of a garbage can. I don't think she has any issues from that experience. She's actually quite affectionate for a cat.
As for the lab, we knew the situation in advance. We didn't want the dog to continue living like that, so we agreed to take her. It's been nearly 8 years now, and she's a healthy senior with the mind of a pup. Her anxiety isn't really that bad. It may have been different if she weren't a lab.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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