Dog Death Quotes

“Then one day we suddenly realized that we had been keeping him alive not because it was good for him, but because it was good for us, because it was too hard to make the decision to let him go. And in the joyful bargain between dog and person, that is the one unforgivable cheat.”
― Anna Quindlen, Good Dog. Stay.

“The end came rather unexpectedly. Although old for a dog, he had been lying quietly for some time. There was no warning. All at once he went into a frightful convulsion, which lasted several minutes. I held his head and tried to still the frantic pawing.

With equal suddenness he quieted at last, and his great brown eyes opened to look into mine. And with those eyes he “said” so plainly that no one could mistake it: “Well, it’s all right now—with you here.”
― Horace Lytle, Gun Dogs Afield