:::this is the way the world ends:::

“It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all…”

She was defiantly independent, unbelievably loyal, tender with our kids, and territorial. She was living proof that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks, as she got smarter and smarter the longer she lived, learning to communicate what she wanted more and more efficiently. She hated getting wet. She protected Eliot and Sara from a raging pitbull, and I slept sitting up with her when she couldn’t lie down from the pain of the injuries she had sustained in the fight. When I came home from the vet after learning that she had advanced lymphoma, my family was gone and she licked the tears from my face. The night before last, she couldn’t climb the stairs to go out at night to go to the bathroom, and I carried her up. Later that night, I found she had climbed the stairs to my bedroom to be beside me during a storm. She was a fighter and stubborn, and one of my best friends. Dogs are a marvel. And I miss her very much.

 

Agnes September 1999 – July 2011

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3 Comments

  1. Shotts

    Sorry to hear this, Ned, but a fitting tribute to Agnes. I hope it’s going well with the family.

  2. Ned

    Thanks, Jeff. Sara and the kids are gone to Iowa. I leave tomorrow for two weeks on Isle Royale.

  3. Shotts

    Safe journeys! It will be remarkable. Enjoy it.

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