You had been deployed in Afghanistan for several years, working closely alongside your bomb-sniffing dog. Your dog was due to retire only a week before your deployment ended, so you decided to adopt.

So now, you sit in the cosy living room of your small woodland cabin. The fireplace warmed the room in the cold, snowy night and casted an orange glow around it. As you sit and read your book, you look around, noticing your dog isn't curled up in their usual spot on the floor next to you.

Where could they be?