Why do almost all my characters with pets have dogs?
Either way, here we have Alicia talking with Melissa about her dog.
“Are you heading to lunch by any chance? I haven’t eaten anything but a stale muffin all day because I was running behind when my phone died. You know, my battery life always says I have like ten hours left and then I never do. My husband says it’s because I always leave the wifi running but I don’t see why that should have anything to do with it. Normally he just wakes me up if my alarm doesn’t go off since he’s already up anyway, but he and my son are in Florida for a hunting trip, and they even took the dog, so there was nobody home to shake me out of dreamland. I mean, it’s fine anyway since our Clifford is too strong for his or anyone else’s good. I can’t even walk him, God bless the little devil.”
She stops talking for a whole 0.2 seconds as she points her car keys at a little key lime green Scion iQ, and opening the passenger’s side door, drops her briefcase on the seat before grabbing a little purple tote almost identical to mine.
“Our lovable little werewolf dragged me half a dozen feet once when he saw a squirrel, and he wasn’t even full-grown at the time! 'Not again,’ I said. I told my husband 'I can walk Chihuahuas, Yorkies, Dachshunds, and Pugs,' but if he wants to keep getting and training these big scary police dogs, they’re gonna have to be handled by somebody bigger than me.”
