Gentle Doesn’t Mean Silent: A Big Dog Teaches a Boy Boundaries

the man looked at Leo.

“Is that accurate?” he asked.

Leo swallowed so hard I saw it in his throat.

“Yes,” he said. “Koda didn’t bite. He just… made a sound. Like—like ‘stop.’”

The man wrote something down.

“Do you have proof?” he asked Sarah gently. “Video? Witnesses?”

Sarah’s face tightened.

“No,” she admitted. “Not from our side.”

The man exhaled and rubbed continue reading …