Four Questions You Can Ask Yourself to Fight Worry

Or what I learnt from a whippet’s anxiety that helps me worry less as a human

Paul Gallagher
Nov 4 · 4 min read
This is Lily, my late Whippet. In the 1st photo, she looks peaceful and calm, but I remember her being a little anxious about getting home again after a walk through the nearby bush. In the 2nd, she was much younger and even more worried about being led with a leash. I recall her stopping and demanding a halt to proceedings! She worried about a lot of things. (Photos credit: Me.)

My late dog Lily was often nervous and worried

I get it — she was a whippet. The breed has a tendency to be anxious, sometimes worried that the basics of life would fail.

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