Eulogy for The World’s Best Dog in the World.
Yesterday was a heartbreaking day as we laid old Bodhisattva (aka Bodhi or Bo) to rest. He hadn’t smiled in some time. He was arthritic and in constant pain. He was weak and he could no longer rely on his body to do the things he needed it to do. He slept almost 24 hours a day, yet he was always exhausted. It was time. Time to go before he lost all his dignity. Dignity. It was the perfect word for Bo. He was a dignified soul. I wish I could say that we got Bo as a little puppy full of promise with tiny, sharp teeth nipping at our heels. Had we, his life would have been so very different. But his puppyhood was, by all signs, a horrible existence. What is documented begins around spring of 2009 in a shelter in the south where he was known as Leo. We’ve no idea how long he was there, only that he was rescued from the shelter by the Atlantic Region Central Border Collie Rescue ( ARCBCR ) the day before he was set to be euthanized – and that’s probably why they took him. He wasn’t a Borde