Happy Valentines Day to you george. I am sitting here with my 13 year-old English setter, tri-colored and still beautiful, and wonder where I can take her in her final years she enjoys the most.
She loves running along the Rio Grande river (We are visiting N.M. right now) and any new place to explore. We are the same, I like the same things.
Boy, she is slowing down, though, and I know I’ll have to lose her someday soon. The thought breaks my heart.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits, And the vet's unspoken prescription runs To lethal chambers or loaded guns, Then you will find--it's your own affair-- But ... you've given your heart to a dog to tear.
R. Kipling.
Yep. Love 'em while ya got 'em.
/johnny