In a bright kitchen, a yellow Labrador Retriever sits gazing hopefully up at the counter, where a middle-aged South Asian woman in a cardigan weighs out a bowl of dry food on a kitchen scale, a puzzle feeder waiting on the floor.

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The Fuel Gauge

Imagine a car whose fuel gauge always reads a quarter of a tank. Fill it to the brim, drive ten miles, and the needle still sits there, nagging. You’d keep stopping for petrol, and nobody would call you greedy. You’d just be trusting the gauge.

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