My last thoughts,as I drifted off, were as always, of the boy - W. Bruce Cameron

We both knew what was happening now, and we were both grateful for it. Of all the wonderful things that humans do for dogs, this was one of the best — helping us when we are in the sort of pain that can only be eased with death.

Sometimes that happens to us, way before we’re ready, a moment that changes everything. Life will be going along, like normal, and then one day without warning you find out that nothing will ever be the same.

Not everything that can be counted counts.
Not everything that counts can be counted.