“We adopted a senior dog many years ago, and it was the best decision we ever made.”
Albert! :)
We did the same with a pair of Lady Basset Hounds. A woman that used to work for me, went on to become a Vet Tech, and I used the vet clinic where she worked. She called one day to tell me that one of their customers died unexpectedly, and would I be interested in adopting her two older dogs. Belle and Pearl were both about 11 years old at the time.
They were ‘City Dogs’ so being allowed to wander off-leash was probably their favorite part of moving to my farm. Our Beagle just loved ‘his girls’ so much!
We lost them both within 3 years, though. Pearl had lymphoma and Belle ended up with a bad disc which paralyzed her.
I like to think that the last few years of their lives, being allowed to ‘just be dogs’ were their happiest.
Bassett hounds are the sweetest, most gentle pups. Belle and Pearl sounded wonderful.
My Albert was a doberman rottweiler mix, so imagine — blocky rottweiler chest on thin little doberman legs, and the most perfect Doberman wedge head, with soft flop ears.
We always joked that if he had a celebrity twin, it would have been David Hyde Pierce as Niles Crane.
Very polite, dapper and gentle. He was adorable.
(Compared to his predecessor, our rottweiler Ursa who was a Texas prom queen, she was such a prissy little lady she hated getting her feet wet and had to be carried to her potty spot when the grass was wet. She topped out at 75lbs...)