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

around the house with a different kind of energy now—still tired, still human, but no longer shrinking.

And I kept thinking about the clip.

About how it showed my teeth, but not the reason.

About how people saw a warning and called it violence.

About how easy it is to punish the thing that stops harm, because harm is harder to admit.

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