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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kymura" data-source="post: 58129" data-attributes="member: 4072">@fuzzball, we recently adopted a 3 year old shepherd, I absolutely adore them, my favorite bigger breed. Don't see many of them now that I live in the South. I agree with you on having to let go, its hard when we love them to say good bye. But it would be so much emptier without them in our lives, Dean Koontz said it best in one of his books.It was on my Chihuahua's grave marker :“Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There's such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it comes with an unbearable price. Maybe loving dogs is a way we do penance for all the other illusions we allow ourselves and the mistakes we make because of those illusions.” ― <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9355.Dean_Koontz" target="_blank">Dean Koontz</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3208572" target="_blank">The Darkest Evening of the Year</a></blockquote>