she once bought a series of video tapes , back before dvds or at least before she had a dvd player , from a friendly guy on the phone who told her that the tapes by this famous tv doctor were the next best thing to having a relationship counselor in your home all the time and that even at two in the morning he would be there for you and would help you when you were crying and blue and eating too much ice cream because the only love you were getting was from your dog and your dog , while unrelenting with her love and warm in bed on a cold night , was not quite the right kind of warm in bed and you would rather something with a little less fur but not too much less because she liked guys to a have a little fur on them .