Goodbye, my oldest Friend.

I don't know if this is appropriate to post or whatever, but today did not go so well.

I was going to show off my costume, I went as Mao Mao, but no.

Today, my dog Sadie has put down after suffering internal bleeding and hip and muscle mass decay from her age. They could have done something, but even if they did her chances for survival would have been slim. It was the humane but ultimately heartbreaking thing to do.

I tried to name her Cupcake when we got her ~12 years ago, but we instead chose Sadie.

She was my oldest friend, I remember a few years ago how she got out of the yard early one morning and I went out into the cold on foot only to find her in our neighbor's yard.

Or all the times she'd barge in my room looking for crumbs (I was a...messy eater as a kid, and I guess that association never went away for her)

but as a Labrador, she had hip problems all her life, and with her age that wasn't getting any better despite our attempts to help her. She'd been very very still as of yesterday and wouldn't even move by the time we were allowed to see her.

Here's to you, my faithful companion. I hope to see you in the Ether one day.