We love you Mr. Bones

After two and a half years, we say farewell to our blind, grumpy king.

On Sunday, we said goodbye to Mr. Bones. We adopted Bones 2 ½ years ago knowing that we wouldn’t have as much time with him as we would have liked. We were his third family, and I hope that we showed him as much love as he deserved. He could be grumpy at times, but he truly was a king, and we treated him as such.

The cadence of our days revolved around him — food and pills by 8 AM (or earlier depending on DST), dinner promptly at 5 PM, finishing with night food and pills at 9 PM — not a minute later. He started his march for food at least a half hour early most days, just so you knew that he knew what time it was.

He’d been slowing down in the past month or so — not getting up out of bed to greet us when we came in the room, not marching when it was food time. He started having seizures and walking in circles. He’s had mast cell tumors and survived brushes with cancer before, so we weren’t completely surprised when our vet confirmed that it was likely a brain tumor that was causing all the trouble. We all knew it was time after a particularly rough week at home fighting a stomach bug and getting used to anti-seizure meds.

But that’s not how we want to remember him. We want to remember him in the sunshine, rolling in the grass, sniffing the air, barking at the tennis ball when he couldn’t find it within his limited field of vision, bonking into the furniture unphased, nuzzling for pets, and blooping the noses of his subjects (us). He was our grumpy, blind old man, the mad but benevolent king. We loved him dearly. Heck, we even bought a house with a ramp off the deck to make his life just a little bit easier.
Sadly, this feeling isn’t new to us — we’ve lost three pets in the last four years. But we know that Mac and Bacon greeted him on the rainbow bridge and are showing him all the best spots to sniff and to sun.

Thank you so much to Albert’s Dog Lounge for trusting us to be Bonesy’s family, and proving that old dogs really do make great friends. 12/10 would adopt a blind old dog again.

Thanks for all the kind words we’ve received about Bones in the past few days. If you can, please help Albert’s other senior and special needs pups by buying off their Amazon wishlist in Mr. Bones’ memory.