Just want to add, any compliments should be delivered as though you are giving them to your sister, or best friends W, or a co-worker....
Focus on the dogs! They are why you are there as far as you are concerned..
BE the new you, strong, confident, ...but a little distant, but available for some empathetic listening...a little "Cool Hand Luke"...no pleady eyes, lost puppy stuff, etc...
Good luck, you got this... T^2
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
