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  1. The Post sent me a notification saying "The following consignment will be with you soon".

    It is the parcel from the pet crematorium.

    I had never noticed that sentence before. It is just a template, and millions of people get the exact same text about sneakers and phone cases.

    But it means something else to me.

    My Juliette will be with me soon.
    This time, forever.

    I never wanted a parcel like this.
    I wanted her alive, meeting me at the door and pushing her wet nose into me every time I come home.

    But this one I need.
    What is left of her is inside it ❤️

    #PetLoss #Grief #Dachshund #Fediverse #Pets #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Blog #Thoughts

  2. Juliette died last night. She was 13.

    In June I posted a photo of her in a yellow unicorn party hat and called it her "second" birthday. A year before that I had spent a weekend doing some kind of CPR on her and writing her heart rate down every 30 minutes, certain she would not see Monday.

    She saw fourteen more months. She walked, she ate, she ran around the flat like nothing had happened.

    That post: dol.social/@dima/1167823675328

    Thank you to everyone who wrote something kind under it. I went back and read all of it again today.

    This photo is from a boat on Lake Lucerne. A third of her life she spent here in Switzerland, and on every walk it was obvious who was walking whom.

    She always got her way. She never backed down from anything, not once, not until yesterday.

    ❤️

    #Dachshund #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs #Grief #Pets #Blog #Thoughts #Medicine #Fediverse #Mastodon #Switzerland #Death