I had to put Dusty to sleep last week after her back legs finally stopped working. It was very cold and snowing and I figured that was coming on one of those types of days. She did enjoy eating snow and patches of sun, but little else, in the last month or so.
She could not walk well in even five inches of snow, and this made her very sad as a snow-loving dog from Hibbing, MN. Even when shivering, she refused to wear a coat to supplement her thick Shepherd mix fur. But she kept up a good front to the end, worried more about failing me than her own pain, it seemed. A great dog, and my first.
