I would rather outlive my dog then have my dog outlive me. I don’t want her to have to know what that is like.
This is one of the most important things that dogs can teach us, and that is how to say goodbye when goodbye is the last thing you want to say. Very hard.
Looking at those pictures was difficult. I don’t know how the officer kept it together. Certainly, he did it to spare the dog the concern for him, but I have no idea how he managed it.