I have lost so many dogs in my life, perhaps because I can never turn one away, but each is special and I understand the hole that you have in your heart that Maximus just doesn’t quite fit into – yet. Tell Maximus about Frodo. While the two of you do the things that you and Maximus want and need to do. Listen to Frodo, when he tells you something that Maximus needs. I firmly believe that every dog that we take into our lives leave an unwritten will behind, that leaves to an unwanted, abused, neglected dog, the warm bed, the full dinner bowl, the fresh water, the human side to snuggle up to, and all of the worn toys, to be joined by new ones, that your last dog left behind. No dog, missed and well loved, would want all of this bounty to go to waste – and we know, more than anything else, that dogs are not selfish. After all, they give all of themselves to us.

Keep trying!