So my minpin, Duke, has advanced periodontal disease and is...

So my minpin, Duke, has advanced periodontal disease and is going under the knife Monday morning to get half his teeth out.

Nine hundred bucks.

He’s a rescue dog. I got him, no lie, from a meth head lesbian couple who were told by the county they had too many dogs.

That was 2 years ago. He’s an old boy, 12 or 13, and a total sweetheart. He curls up to me every night.

The vet also noticed that his heart is murmuring, a sign of age, a sign of impending death. One day, likely, his heart will give out.

You know all those old people who pass away and we are told it was “natural causes”? Yeah, it was actually heart failure, which is, true, completely natural.

I will spend 900 bucks on this dog because I don’t want his last little while on this earth to be spent with a toothache. I’ve had a toothache.

Fuck that.