Otto was not the normal adopt a dog kind of story. I actually had absolutely no idea I was even getting a dog at all. The summer before I turned 18 I nagged and nagged and nagged my parents about how much I wanted my own dog. We have two beautiful family collies, Meg and Bep, that I love dearly, but I wanted a dog that was my own. I wanted to train my own dog, take it on adventures, love it and have the kind of friendship that goes with ‘a girl and her dog’. My parents made it very clear that it was not going to happen. Very…