Bichon Friese and tiny dogs are hilarious. I love tiny dogs and so do you; and I wonder about how and why one wants a dog, because it’s a companion? Because it needs help? It plateaus at a 2 yr old level of explaining the world to humans. Combating loneliness in its core is a losing battle if it is framed as a battle to begin with. Maybe it is an ever accelerating generational phantom limb - a yearning; that wants to refill that which we lost through the process of industrialization and becoming more productive as a consequence. The alter at which we sacrificed the illegible for the legible runs thick with the blood of myth