Al Dukes

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.

That's not happening.

Correct.

Yeah.

Well, no, we did, we, she didn't because they, all the dogs used to sleep in the bed, but after that she just slept, you know, downstairs on, on the big dog bed.

Dogs are, you know, they're good at... Again, they've been with us for...

as our companions for maybe as long as 30,000 years and at least documented 15,000 years.

So we've kind of grown up together and some people make the argument that we got our social structure from dog packs and wolf packs and that is very similar the way sort of we, our society evolved was sort of based on

on the way dogs were.

So, yeah, I do believe they can tell when you're – they can smell fear, obviously.

They can sense sadness.

They can sense anger.

They can – and they just know, like, when I tell people who are meeting my –

my dog Raymond, who is very, very sweet, but very energetic.