"You probably ought to get him appropriate things to chew on. You wouldn't want him to decide your students' paperwork is a good toy or perhaps your robe." If dogs weren't taught what was ok to chew up and what wasn't young then it could cause a lot of problems when they got older.
"Sometimes, yes. More so when I was in Australia. Right now I'm still showing them here that I can do it." After all they had to make sure that anyone they'd put in the tank with the fish wasn't just going to get themselves killed. It was a liability issue.
"I've been wanting to come back. Eventually my family tracked me down. Evidently they'd been looking for me for years." It was amazing what the muggle private detectives could do. She certainly hadn't left any traces for them to follow. The only thing that was the same was that she used her middle name as her first. "I had to come back... For them, for myself, for Alix." Despite her fear to actually see him.
She gave a shaky grin to the waitress and took her own drink, taking a deep drink from it. Just remembering all the time she'd been away... "As good as things were there for me, they weren't perfect. Not how I wanted my life to be. How I wanted my life to be required that I come home."