my 14 year old Lab Dazy is failing fast. she has the staggers and falls regularly. for the last year she has had trouble sleeping and for the last month she gets me up at 1 am.
the only way the wife can get sleep is if I take Dazy into the living room where she (the dog, not the wife) will lay still on the sofa if I sit by her.
from 1 am to 6 am when the wife gets up is a long time. been getting a lot of reading done though.
next animal I get is going to be a turtle or a parrot so they out live me. though at this age a puppy will probably do that.

the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~