breakfast in bed

our first empath was schubert the standard poodle, who suffered over each death of one of the dogs. it got progressively worse as he aged and the dogs passed on. each time he suffered I worried that we were going to lose him.

 

I wondered if any of the others would replace him and his great mourning when he died.

 

when jones the basenji died the first of october, 2017, just 5 months after schubert, chai stopped eating and sulked around without any energy. he got progressively worse.

it has taken us 2 years almost to the day of creative meal fixing and gentle cajoling to get chai to eat again.

slowly but surely he is eating. regular meals and even sometimes downstairs with the others. knock on wood.

but a lot of time he still dines in bed.

 

whew!

life with dogs

 

iPhoto, provoke app

 

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