In Our Hands explores the complex dynamics of control, survival, culture, privilege, and vulnerability within the human-animal relationship. With over two decades of experience as an animal behaviorist and therapy dog raiser, I bring a lived sensitivity to interspecies relationships. Yet this intimacy also reveals an ethical tension I continue to navigate—between cultural and human desires and the welfare of the animals entrusted to our care. The work seeks not to resolve this conflict, but to hold it in view.