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Old Dog

We never know how much time we’ll have together.

I haven’t talked about my senior dog, Rupert, for a while. He’s living with my dad out in the country, but I get to see him about once a month. He’s completely happy living with my dad, and far more comfortable there than at my house.

Rupe likes to follow his favorite people like a shadow, which has gotten somewhat problematic in his creaky old age. Our last visit to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital at the University of California at Davis pinpointed the source of Rupert’s declining mobility as his knees, whose ligaments were frankly described as “blown out.” At 14 years old, with cardiac arrhythmia, high blood pressure,…


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