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| Wally’s last photo, taken on February 22, 2009 |
May 19, 1996 –
March 9, 2009
By Moristotle
[An announcement of Wally’s passing was published on March 9, 2009.]
As March arrived, I was mindful that it was the month, ten years ago, that Siegfried came to us, following by less than a week the passing of another canine Dean Family member, Wally.
Wally had moved to Mebane from Chapel Hill with us the preceding summer, his health already compromised by an autoimmune deficiency following a copperhead snake bite between two toes of his hind right foot.
And yesterday, after scheduling Siegfried’s final vet appointment, I was more mindful than I wanted to be that his passing was only one day short of the tenth anniversary of Wally’s.
For more photos and information about Wally, click here for posts labeled “Wally,” most recent shown first.
And, by the way, I scheduled Susan C. Price’s drawing of a dog and Eric Meub’s sonnet “Toby” weeks ago, so I was as struck as anyone by these two days’ “coincidence” of three consecutive posts about dogs – and by the fact that Eric’s poem mentions energy, appetite, and self-consciousness. Maybe it’s more significant than we thought that “God” is “dog” spelled backwards?
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Both Wally and Siegfried had a very loving home. Sometimes, among the ways of life, that is the best we can do - and what a blessing it is.
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