Your Dog is 15 Years Old
Maybe you had him since he was eight weeks old.
Maybe you got him as an adult. But you’ve had him awhile and now he’s fifteen
years old.
You’re moving to an apartment that doesn’t allow
dogs. Or you’re moving someplace where he won’t have a yard and you’d actually
have to walk him.
Whatever the case is, you don’t want to be
bothered with him anymore.
The first dog I ever had I only had for two years.
One day she ran past me as I went out to go to work because she saw a dog on
the other side of the street. A truck zoomed by and in an instant she was dead.
The first puppy I ever had was the light of my
life. But he was born with an aggressive degenerative nerve disease. I saw him go
from an energetic puppy, full of life, to a dog that my sister and I had to
carry downstairs from our apartment so he could go potty. We had to have him
put down by the time he was two years old. There was nothing that could be
done.
I adopted a little dog who the owner said was about
fourteen years old. The woman said she wanted money for Christmas presents.
When I first brought the little dog home, she acted like she didn’t know what
grass was. She didn’t ever wag her tail. She was old and feeble. She never did
learn to potty outside or on a pee pad. She only stayed with me one year before
she had to be put to sleep. But before that happened, I got her to where she
was readily wagging her tail.
If I could have had just one more year with any
one of those dogs, I would have been overjoyed.
So your dog is fifteen years old now…
