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I’ve bought too many dog toys more often than I care to admit.

Over the years, I’ve brought home three rescues, Mingo, Margot and Gloria, and I got the big things right, but it seems like at least one of the small things was wrong every single time.

Now it’s just Mingo and me.

What all of this taught me is that the shopping you do in the week before a pet comes home decides how the first month goes, and that the mistakes are almost never the expensive ones. They’re the bowl that slides across the kitchen, the…

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