My wife doesn’t play, but I like to think our experience with IRL dogs would have instinctively precluded this. We can’t even raise out voices about an external topic we agree about without our Heeler barking at us to calm the fuck down.
Still, I also understand. I play solo because it’s relaxing, but if anything happens to Rusty or Blue, I will take a vow to obliterate that mob and its entire genetic legacy.
Here’s the two real guys in 1977. https://www.mercurynews.com/2011/10/10/john-madden-al-davis-was-a-friend-till-the-end/