AUTHOR UNKNOWN
SUBMITTED BY VICKI HAVICON STONEWALL BELGIAN TERVUREN
Living with a very old dog means feeling your heart speeding up every time you see them a little more stiller than usual and approaching with the fear that they have stopped breathing.
Living with a very old dog means being aware that some of the things you’ll do together may be the last.
Living with a very old dog means thinking “this is their last summer,” “this is their last July,” “this could be the last morning.”
Living with a very old dog means they bark at any noise at any time, not because they know what they are barking at, it's they feel they need to bark and let us know.
Living with a very old dog means you have to lift them up into the truck, the bed, the couch, the stairs.
Living with a very old dogs means putting off commitments because it’s impor- tant to be close to them.
Living with a very old dog means we trip over them because they are so sound asleep they don’t hear us approaching them.
Living with a very old dog means accidents in the house. It's ok, they don’t mean to do it.
Living with a very old dog means feeling guilty because you know you could have done more, giving them more runs, more travel, more hugs, more caresses, more everything.
I would like to say that living with a very old dog also puts us in the face of our own death, fragility, vulnerability.
Living with a very old dog means we got to experience life with a very old dog, which is one of the best joys on earth!
216 | SHOWSIGHT MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 2021
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