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Oscar you sweet boy

Eddie is a character of a dog that’s for sure

Ethan a lab who ate a mfing golf ball and making you go to the vet is so on brand for a lab I cannot… also I could never live in a city center and have an active dog. I would feel so bad. Good boy lived a good life though 🥺😢

It was cute to see the show dog side of things and I’m glad we get to see Frankie live on through his son Bombo 🥺

A different type of story. Didn’t know Nick Trout is vet and author. This one was sweet to see but still teary

feeling not so lonely in my grief 💙

I choose to believe Lady is still alive. I don’t care however long ago this was written or published

Someday I will likely have another dog, but it will not be Shelby. In reading these essays I realize they are all about loyalty and love. How lucky we are to have a dog in our lives. How treasured our time with them is. I have come to realize there is not necessarily one best dog in the world, but, if we're fortunate, many best dogs, who each enrich our lives in different ways.

I grow to want to be near his smell. His fur. To want
to feel his tooth or nail on me.
I grow to be proud of those scars on my arms.
I grow to need him beside me on the couch as I write my books. That it's because of him, as he literally lies on my lap, a few levels down from my gaze, that I learn to think about how to present things in my stories from different angles.

Who would provide him with the joy of finding all the things I lose, had we not found him? Who else would let him spend hours gazing into her jaded eyes, forcing her to engage, to put the computer away, to dance and spin away from the brink of another dark place and back out into the sun again?

There are many things I wish Id done differently in this life, and a few things I deeply regret, but when I dip my cup into the darkest dregs of my soul's deep well of remorse, I come up with Eddie.

Jesse is a good girl

Dogs are not allowed to die anymore dammit