Our dog, [name withheld], feels particularly drawn to my wife and is quite devoted to her. Was that preplanned to be a special mission of his as she is more in need of companionship?

This is exactly the truth of things. You saw this intuitively and you, in a sense, saw this from the beginning that this was what was shaping up. After all, it was her who came to you with the feeling it was time to choose a new pet and, in fact, found this very dog on the Internet in an advertisement from the breeder, as a member of a recent litter, and was captivated by his image and description. You were quite willing to defer to her choice in this even though you had misgivings because of your heavy obligations, knowing you would not be able to take great time and care with a new pet to get it acclimated and oversee it, and do the many things needed to deal with housebreaking, and so forth, so were hoping to defer to her to a significant degree, to lean on her, in effect, for much of the routine care. So when he took to her quite strongly, and it seemed to be an active preference, this was, in effect, a relief to you because you knew the dog would be in good hands and also that your last companion animal was quite devoted to you personally and did not want the same closeness with your wife, and this was a source of disappointment to her. So this was planned to right the wrong, so to speak, of that imbalance and was used as an opportunity to target, very much so, a strong love connection between [name withheld] and your wife to fill that void and make up for the lack, and the long yearning she has had all along to be closer to your last dog, even though she ended up doing much of the daily chores in feeding it and getting it out during the day. Being [name withheld], she has love for you all, for that is who she is, but she is on a mission to first and foremost devote herself to your wife and that is the way it is orchestrated. It is a kind of imprinting to transfer the maternal source of love to your wife at this tender age in puppyhood when it has been weaned and separated from the mother dog altogether, but still needs a sense of security, and of greatest importance, belonging to the pack as another instinctive imperative that ensures survival. So this is being capitalized on to have the bonds between those two grow more strongly than the bond with others in the family, and that serves nicely to set the stage for this divine mission as an outpouring of love to her that is long deserved and much needed given the losses she has lived through in losing loved ones all along the way from her family. This is a love blessing indeed from the divine on all levels.