Al Dukes

I would not say shame is one.

And they know they did bad.

Right.

But that is like an obvious wrong behavior.

This is just something she can't physically do anymore.

So I don't think it would be shame.

But there's definitely a sadness to it because I experienced that with Quail.

You know, she couldn't go up the stairs anymore and she would just go to the bottom of the stairs and look up and she was sad about it.

No, she knew.

Did she have an incident?

Well, she had a stroke right before Christmas of 22, pretty bad one.

And then we nursed her back and that's where you were asking me about harnesses and all that stuff.

And we had to sort of carry her for six weeks, you know, in and out of the house.

And then it got to the point where she could use her front legs and we're using a strap to support her back.

And then she got to the point where she was, you know, pretty good for about two and a half years.

She would go on like, you know, she would walk five or six miles a week on nice weather weeks and was doing okay.

And then she...

right before and then she was deteriorating the last few months and then the day we put her down she had another stroke that at that point my goodness we were like okay you know this would be cruel to try to yeah

you know, make her, and she was 16 and a half at that point, which is very old for a lab.

Yeah.