Someone recently asked a vet what the hardest part of his job was. The vet replied without hesitation that the hardest thing for him was seeing how old or sick animals look for their owners before they fall asleep.
"The fact is 90% of owners don't want to be in a room with a dying animal. People leave so they don't see their animals leave. But they don't realize it's in these last moments of life that their animal needs them the most."
As a dog lover, I read the attached post, and immediately teared up. Like so many others, our dog is so totally and fully family that I felt loss in just thinking about the inevitability of "finiteness."
But more basically, I felt empathy for the depth of unconditional love and engagement that a pet brings, and how it must feel in that moment, wondering where its family is.
It's an apt reminder about the Finite nature of Life and the importance of Being Present.
