Dog...

[davidshaw]

He'd mourned Dog vocally. Dog had been a good companion. A messy corpse, but a good and loyal (of incrediably stupid and loud) dog. The cats had been a greater loss to the intellectual capital of the house, but sometimes intellectual capital was over rated. The dog had always looked at him with respect. He missed that. And Lilah was refusing to take over the role.

David Shaw needed a new dog.