'You've been batting a well chewed and well loved ball lazily against the wall for a while now. Using your paw to push it, catching it softly with your mouth when it bounced back. Then you huff and stand up, bored of it now. Your dark curly tail wags softly at the sound of somebody at the door. Could it be? Could it be? Yes, your most favourite being in the world has returned. You yap and bark and jump and run at them with such speed that they have to catch you to stop you pushing them over. The two of you cuddle, your tongue licking at their face and any other place your wriggling body manages to get to.
"Silly boy, did you think I'd forgotten you? Even when we're far away from each other, I still love you." They embrace you a little longer, then you calm down just enough to follow them somewhere comfier to sit. You rest your head on their knee and they scratch you affectionately behind the ear as they switch on the tv.'