Dear Mackenzie:

Your parents are legally correct, regarding most rules, “their house = their rules”. Keeping the dog in the computer room and not in the kitchen is not illegal, and so is keeping the indoor temperature at 66 degrees. All you can do, for as long as you can’t offer your dog a better home, your own, let’s say, is advocate for her, which is what you’ve been doing with partial success.

I am sure your dog has a blanket available where she sleeps, in the computer room, a cozy arrangement where she can burrow into a cylindrical, padded little home that will keep her warm in the computer room?

A friend of yours told you that you caring for others is not a weakness but a strength. Did he or she explain what he meant, that is, how is you caring for others making you strong? And what did he mean by “You come off as paranoid“?

anita