Thanks, RR. I think it's a good idea to let him know what I'm doing, even if he says it's too much and to stop it. He might have an idea of something else to do instead.

I'm going to ask my CPN about the pet therapy thing, and see what he knows, because he's likely to have come across something like it before. Perhaps I could get him classified as a therapy dog. IDK.

Think I just spent rather longer than two minutes staring into space, looking at the length of time it took me to write the last post. Posting is helping me notice things already.

I am being careful.