Don't tell anyone that, or I'll lose my carefully built gruff reputation of invincibility.

[It definitely was easy, and it wasn't even that bad adding the sleeping chick there in his arms either. He leaned his head a little more against Gabe's closing his eyes to just drink in the scene and the change to their lives. It seemed to him that Roxy and Reyes were already pretty darn attached to this little one.

He was... well, he experienced more complicated emotions on the matter. He would need time to sort it all out and get to the root of his unease, but until then, he was going to have to play nice with everyone involved.]

Does make sense. Horses and dogs can be the same.