You concentrate on the fact you gave them a quality, happy life. Rather than putting all the emphasis on the death, you focus on the living part. It?s actually a happy ending not depressing.

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So here he?d lost his owner, then his brother, and he was in this shelter. Yet, we could still see life in his eye.

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It?s not the length of time they live. The older dogs we have, we know will die calmly, they will die loved.

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