A week ago Tuesday we lost our family dog Clarence to pancreatitis. He also had diabetitis and had gone blind in the last few weeks. He had adjusted fantastically to the recent hardships and had even learned his "rights" and "lefts" and if he was about to walk into something we could just call out "LEFT!" and he would turn left, away from the wall/fridge/couch, etc, and keep on going. He was great the day I left for Vegas for my photography conference, but the next night he was up all night long in extreme pain, ended up in the hospital, and they could not make him comfortable. The diabeties suddenly couldn't be controlled any longer and he was in so much pain and so out of it my dad and my sister decided to let him go but they are both struggling so, so much with their descion. Everyone in our family loved Clarence so much, he belonged to all of us.
Sorry for the really low quality, my sister sent me this clip, it's longer than the one below, but it just shows him being happy outside... I love that. She had to shrink it so much in order to email it it just butchered the quality. I wish I had access to her computer I could probably do it better than she could.
This is just... CLARENCE. Being himself. He would only take treats if he could "kill" it first by playing this little game first. I'm so glad somebody thought to video tape it. After he went blind my dad still found a way to play it with him by rubbing the treat on the ground so he could "hunt it" with his nose. I miss him.
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