Day 4,074: Devil’s Slide

It’s so hard to watch your dogs deteriorate. There’s a unique despair. It happens so quickly. All the sudden, they’re very, very old. Only a week or two of being sick and not moving around much, and they lose all their muscle mass. In a blink, it looks like they’re dying, and sometimes they are. And they can’t talk to you, they can’t tell you where it hurts or why they don’t want to eat or move around. Suddenly this loved one that you’ve built your life around keeping safe…is in mortal danger. Y...