The Dogs Who Helped Me Get Sober

How Gidget, Scamp, Ikus, Cody, and Lola Carried Me Through the Darkness

Dear Son,

If you ever hear someone say, “They’re just dogs,”
they’ve never been saved by one.

Me? I was rescued five times.
Their names were Gidget, Scamp, Ikus, Cody, and Lola.
All small dogs with big hearts—who never gave up on me, even when I had given up on myself.

During the hardest years of my life—after failed marriages, heavy drinking, and more loneli…