Animals are best friends, but often I read cases and news of people abandoning their pets when they decided to move or started a new life (like marriage) or worse still, when the pet got sick at old age. My cats one by one passed away peacefully in my parents' humble abode. Last 2 years my favorite Stripe the cat, my best friend for 22 years, passed away. Due to health problems. I had no jobs, but lucky enough i had some money which was supposed to be for my further studies. I used it. It hanged onto its life as though it refused to leave me alone seeing I had no one by my side in my dire traits, not even my family. I spoke to it to go peacefully and not to worry about me, that I will promise to be strong for its sake too, and that was when my cat Stripes, left the world. I like this article you wrote about your dog. Animals make the best companion compared to a human being.