For the first couple of week Frank got me out of the house a limited number of times. He had not yet had all his jabs, so we couldn’t go for walks. I’d stared reading up on dog training tips so I would take him for short walks with him in my arms, to get him used to being on streets, around traffic, around people (something I wasn’t good with either at this point in my life), and we ended up in coffee shops a lot.

Now as I’ve mentioned I wasn’t a very sociable...