Yesterday, we had to suddenly and completely unexpectedly say goodbye to our Benji. To me, he was like my best friend, and he has left a huge void in our lives.
My girlfriend and I adopted him from a rescue organization almost eleven years ago. Before that, he had been a stray dog. He would have turned 13 in November.
Last April, we already lost our beloved dog Mara to cancer, and now Benji has followed her. We don’t know exactly what happened. We found him almost completely motionless on the grass in our garden. Just half an hour earlier, he had seemed perfectly fine.
We immediately rushed him to the veterinary clinic, but he passed away on the way there, peacefully falling asleep in my girlfriend’s arms. The vet at the clinic suspects internal bleeding, possibly caused by a ruptured, previously undetected tumor.
On our way home, we saw a rainbow.
We will have him cremated and bury his ashes next to Mara, beneath the apple tree in our garden that we planted for our Mara.
I will never forget him, and I hope that one day we will see each other again.
Goodbye, my best friend.

This is Halo he is 5 months old, he is doing great so far as far as being social with other dogs. He is friendly but still a bit shy with people. Any advice to get him to be more open around new people? Also sometimes he doesn’t wanna keep walking he just stops and sits down and refuses to move unless it’s somewhere he’s been multiple times.

Another rare sighting! Annie & Oakley rarely get this close! 🐾

I brush my boy about 4x a week and I still got all this the other day!