My old lab (Jo) has gone where the good doggies go. She died the same year my mother did, about a month earlier. She was a good dog.
The dachshunds, on the other hand, were rotten. ;-) What cracks me up is that you can talk to almost any dachsie owner about their dogs, and they typically will try to top one another with bad-dog stories. So the lack of conscience is apparently not an unknown trait. ;-)
My dog is still around, I just had to leave her at my old house, no room for her here. Heck, there’s no room for me here.