 awareness to actual organizations in real places within the place that I live. But I love animals, and there's always a dog. I feel like a dog is such a great way to help the reader understand who the main character is, because what kind of dog you have says a lot about you. If you have, for example, a three-legged rescue dog that didn't like men, and you are a man, and you've convinced this dog to love you, like Lieutenant Dan loves Jacob and yours truly,