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Kasey Butcher Santana's avatar

This was so sweet. She's such a beautiful dog!

My dog is approaching 15 and I'm finding that the old lady stage has lessons like the puppy stage does.

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Kaia Preus's avatar

15! That is incredible. I’d love to hear what you’re learning from your sweet old lady. I wrote about our first dog and what I learned from her before she passed away here if you’re interested: https://open.substack.com/pub/lovefromkitchentable/p/the-greatest-gifts-my-dog-cleo-gave?r=6hmik&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Melissa Thomas's avatar

As a dog owner, I LOVE this. I also foster dogs and I’d add that I learned from them “not all people are bad”. Most of our fosters come from not-so-great situations and we have to teach them to trust again.

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Im Writer-nim's avatar

She's so precious and wise 🙇🏻‍♀️

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Sarah Davis's avatar

"when you're tired, take a nap" - yup.

We just got two kittens and I feel the same. It's taking me a while to love them. It's A LOT of chaos we just invited into our house but it's also sooo good in soo many unexpected ways.

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Breeann Adam's avatar

I love this perspective and list!

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Jemy Rae's avatar

AWWW so cute! We have a black lab who is almost 3 years old and his name is Groot! It was my first experience with a dog haha so it was scary for me at first but I have fallen in love with him. He drives me crazy sometimes especially now that I have a baby but they LOVE each other. He is such a blessing and I appreciate the reminder with this post! Such good lessons!! :)

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Pam Langseth's avatar

We love Franny!!! She is the best!❤️❤️

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