It Feels Wrong, Now Our Dog is Gone …

When a person’s dog has died, if they only had the one dog, things they never thought might happen do happen, and it can feel like life has been turned upside down.

The truth of it is, life has been turned upside down. You were a dog owner, you knew what that meant, you cared for that dog, looked out for it, fed it, cleaned up after it. These at the basic ones, but you also talked to that dog, from telling your dog when they were good, or bad, or just talking personal stuff, because a dog is the perfect listener for such things.

People are tactile creatures, and especially in these Covid-ridden times, having a dog to pat or hug feels extra special, because random hugs to people are no longer happening ...

Our household is without a dog now. Our lovely dog Missy has died, and while we were thinking about getting another dog, as a companion for Missy, it didn’t happen. And now Missy is gone …

But we’d thought hard about our next breed of dog to welcome into our home, and had already looked into how to get ourselves that kind of dog. Missy was a Pharaoh Hound, a rare-ish breed of dog in Australia, and the breed for our next is another sighthound, a different one, the Greyhound.

After many years of having Schnauzers, we had changed from that bearded middle-sized breed of dog, to the smooth coated and slightly bigger Pharaoh Hound. And since our son, who has moved out of home, and has his own dog, a Greyhound from the Greyhound Adoption Program in…