Chapter 39

We introduced Toto to Rip, Shelby, and Carrie that evening. Carrie was going to pick up “This Little Piggy,” as she’d already dubbed her, from the pharmacy partway through the next day, since Goose insisted on staying with me at work. We wanted to introduce my emotional supporter to her second new setting bit by bit, to get her used to all the new people she’d be meeting over the course of a day. Since we were throwing her into her new career without even asking her permission first, we thought that only fair.

Her crate and a little bed took up most of the empty floor space in my tiny office. Though I did like the thought of her being the shop mascot, that was up to her, in her time and under her conditions. For now, I’d put up a Please Only Pet The Pig If She Requests It sign, which garnered some rather strange looks and a bunch of questions. I was honest with those who asked.