Elias Weiss Friedman

can help with that and are so entwined in our lives.

And it makes that moment so meaningful.

And of course it's like,

When I proposed to my wife, Sam, Elsa had to be there, my dog.

It was a beach in Malibu, and Elsa was running around, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Dogs are part of our story, and if we're lucky enough to find our human person, then our dog is just... We have to give them a lot of credit because they activate...

our hearts and they open another chamber of our heart, which we may not have known is there.

And I would say that's true about my life is after I got Elsa, that was when Sam and I also basically catalyzed our relationship.

We had known each other for a bit and dated a little, but Elsa made me realize who I wanted to be with and that I was capable and capable of having more love to give and deserve to be loved more.

Yes, that's correct.

Yeah.

She was one of my sister's good friends.

It's not, I guess, uncommon for you to end up with someone that you have known for a while or grew up with, but of course,

I feel like the dog aspect, Elsa, if it weren't for her, then I don't think we would be together necessarily.

Who knows?

Yeah, I think this is like a fascinating aspect of, I've done a lot of series with working service dog organizations for veterans with PTSD, various types of PTSD.

And it's just incredible the power that these dogs have that no other medication therapy can really match.

And it's something that I've been trying to understand.

Even yesterday, I was at a Temple University hospital with an organization called Crisis Response Canines, and they basically go into settings where a disaster or a tragedy has happened.

There's a shooting.