Dear ten-year-old, Wow, you really like dogs. In fact, you like dogs so much that I’m not even sure it’s emotionally healthy. It might be normal to love dogs a lot, or to be really interested in dogs, but you go way, way past that. Normal children don’t walk around pretending to be a dog nearly as much as you do, for example. You’re ten. It makes people wonder about your developmental progress when you growl and bark at them. An even more concerning issue is the obstacle course. Fine, you want to train your dog to run through an obstacle course. That’s pretty normal. What isn’t normal is
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