When you’re having a stressful week, your dog can literally be your savior. No matter how much you have to do, you can carve out 2 minutes to give him a good scratch behind the ears, and it is guaranteed to make you feel better. It’s a quick little hit of dopamine before you have to go back to doing whatever it is you’re so busy doing. And they love it too. Your dogs live for the moments when you scratch them behind the ears. If we both had it our way, we’d be scratching their ears from 9-5 and then some, like it’s our dang job. 

Of course, life isn’t that easy. You probably have a job to do that doesn’t involve petting your dog. You probably have to leave them to go to an office where you’re miles away from them. This is the human curse. We are gifted with a man’s best friend, but we don’t get to hang out with them all the time.