A Different Perspective: 6/26/2024

Two months short of his third birthday, my dog was hit and killed on the highway recently. He was not a wanderer and very intelligent, so I’ll never know why he went there, but it happened.

I know all of you pet people have gone through the same loss. It is an immutable fact that our most loyal friends will leave us too soon, and there is no cushion to soften that loss.

Anyone who has lived decades and always had pets, has been through that darkness repeatedly because, even if they reach old age, they will go all too quickly. Every time we’ve felt the agony, and yet we’ve always found a new so...