A dog's last day

[Catherine]

I think for some people sharing private moments is very important. Not everybody has a sense of what a personal life is.
Her sharing could well help other people who are unable to express their feelings.

I think the dog was holding on, but just barely. In the play picture the old dog was not actually playing. It was lying down with the doggie companion. The dog ate some of the cheese burger and walked a little, but I sense that she was weak and struggling in some ways.

This is not the first time we have come across pictures/video of an animals last day. Do you remember the movie about a dog's last weeks of life. The owner was a film maker and he wanted to take his dog to all their favourite spots. He carried him up a mountain trail because the dog was too weak. It was a beautiful movie and I think as a film maker he coped and expressed his sense of loss by making a movie.

I express my sense of loss by planting something. We are all different in our ways of dealing with loss. There is something very moving about the picture of her with her dog, lying on the floor. The image tells people that it is okay to feel that strongly about the loss of a dog.  Who knows how much that might help someone who is having trouble grieving.