Dog of a Lifetime

About a year ago, we decided there’d be no more stairs. I carried her from floor to floor, in and out of cars, and onto sofas and chairs like a stiff-legged suitcase. I would’ve done it forever. Looking now at old photos, I’d forgotten all the changes. I never expected to have such an old dog. I never expected her to be old for so much of her life. She got used to the diminishment of her senses.…