My boyfriend reaches his hand out to calm him and Lamby lunges, biting him.

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Lamby trots in, does several laps around the room, then stretches across the foot of the bed.

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Lamby makes himself busy, circling her, placing a spitty chew toy on any exposed skin he can find.

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Ms Davidson congratulated local authorities for their work during a visit to the Lamby Way Recycling Site run by Cardiff council.

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Something between a sob and a siren, it is how Lamby expresses a doleful emotion that he experiences roughly twice a day.

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At bedtime, I shut Lamby in the living room with my sister, who needs the comfort, but, a moment later, it starts: the sound.

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We all go to dinner and then pick up Lamby, who bounds out of day care and into the sub-zero night to greet us.

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But the minute we arrive home it gets weird: Lamby picks up a stuffed toy in his mouth and shakes it hard, as if to break its neck.

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The ambulance leaves, but Lamby starts again when the woman below me coughs, a deep weak rumble that I often mistake for male sounds of sexual pleasure or the evening news.

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In the bathroom a little while later, we are brushing our teeth when Lamby saunters in, calm, like your college roommate the day after an acid trip, acting like everything is normal.

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Lamby stands, ready to fight.

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