🐶 Amanda Keller's Heartbreaking Reflection On Her Dog Getting Older

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Well I was away with my I'm crying already. I
was away with my dog on the weekend. And she's fine.
Anyone that knows me she's fine. No, she's not. But
she's thirteen and I have to lift her into the
car now. Little front paws go enough to put up
the back legs. She's going deaf, she's gray in the face.
She's kind of stands at the bottom of the stairs
and tries to will herself to go up them. And

(00:43):
there's a lot that's hard for me at the moment.
My husband's un well, my dad's ninety one. And I
look at the dog and I think you cannot go anywhere.
And I follow this woman on Instagram. Her name is
Caroline mccuiston, and she lives in this beautiful, little tiny
cottage in this I'm come back now in the Scottish Highlands.
And she has a Border Collie and she takes that
dog out walking in the most beautiful scenor I've ever seen,

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and she bakes and she has this lovely life seems.
And she posted this some images of her dog patting
a dog sitting in the dog on the couch, and
she posted it to a poem written by a woman
called Josie Bullcup, and it's about her dog. And I
watched about a thousand times, and I cry and cry,

(01:27):
and I think of my dog, and let's play the palm.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I have a bit of a week.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
If it could be with this dog, I'd want the
dog days to last forever. It would always be this
dog on the end of the leash, no matter the weather,
rain or shine, taking our time on even the coldest
of days. It would always be this dog, leaving scratches
on the hardwood and getting them away while I vacuum
up the very fury evidence that this house belongs to
both of us. It would always be this dog at

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the front door when I get home from work, pacing
around like nothing has ever been more joyful than this moment,
every single time. If it were up to me, I'd
have to leave every party early for the rest of
my life to get home to this dog. I'd forfeit
the ability to swallow it in bed. I'd show the
last blight of every meal, apologize to gas for the
friend of excitement, and they arrive. I take a green

(02:12):
Salt coach and muddy pop brinds in the front hallway.
I'd willingly find hairs on every sweater I ever wear,
but I only do it for this dog because if
it were this dog, I don't want the dog days
to last forever. Oh so happy to talk. It's so
sweet and I love the relationship. You have a little
mini dog and it's such a cute dog. But she's here.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
She's here, I know, but there's a grace to an
aging dog. There's such a grace to her, but a
little hips. Yeah, they're getting sore. And everyone who's lost
a pet, and I've lost a pet before, it's just
so hard. She hasn't gone yet, as you say, But
she's thirteen, and I see it, and I saw that
palm and the beautiful pictures of her. Bought a Colie

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and it just brought down stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Anyway, Right, if.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
We I replaced it with the dog that I used
to have, that nut bag dog, you'd be hoping that
it's dog days for coming sooner.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Now. I'm just trying to cheer you up there because
that dog was a knut. It's a full on knut.
It's scary everyone. Okay, thank you for ninety kilo puh machine.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Your insensitivity is brought I'm not.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
I'm trying to get your back. I'm trying to write
the back.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Don't you worry. I'm back