Colonic Irritation!

How the Dog I Didn't Think I Wanted, Saved My Life!

Divinder Singh Purewal

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Tellwell Talent
03 September 2025

Memoirs; Complementary therapies, healing & health; Dogs as pets

In October 2020, my daughter Simran, aged 20, presented a 16-slide deck on ""why our family needs a dog.""

The deck covered everything from ""needing something to love other than Netflix"" to how a dog would make us all walk and get healthy, as I was ""looking more like Homer Simpson than Homer Simpson.""

I was told that I was the last obstacle (her actual words) and I argued that I didn't want a dog as it would become my dog, and I had already parented enough with her and her brother Kieran.

I was overruled and awaited my fate.

Two months later, just before Christmas, Milo arrived, and from the moment we met I knew I was in trouble. He somehow knew I was the weak link, so he made me his human. We should have named him Shadow, as that's what he became to me.

A year later he started acting strangely around me, barking, softly clawing and licking my belly in a comforting way.

That was the moment the dog I didn't think I wanted ended up saving my life . . .

By: Divinder Singh Purewal
Imprint: Tellwell Talent
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 299g
ISBN: 9781834182384
ISBN 10: 1834182387
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 03 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Divinder lives with his wife and adult children in Surrey, BC, Canada. He has spent his whole career in human resources, with the emphasis on human and less on resources. In his spare time he is a standup comedian, published author and actor. This book, Colonic Irritation, is his second book, having published Oh! Canada?, a comedy memoir, in February 2018.