“Either we both would have come down that mountain, together... or else we both would have stayed right THERE, together. “
Sounds like someone in Seattle. In the mountains, that would be a good way to die. Your choice, but dying with your dog isn’t my idea of nobility.
When your dog is old, will you put him down or wait until natural death overtakes him?
Benji is my seventh dog, in nearly sixty years of living. I've already had to do that more than once, thank you.
There's a vast, yawning and (for most folks, at any rate) readily comprehensible difference between someone dying of natural causes, and leaving a loved one to die -- alone and afraid -- in the cold and the wild.
“but dying with your dog isn’t my idea of nobility.”
He’d do it for me so I could do no less for him.
It’s an honor and loyalty thing.
Maybe you don’t understand.