My sympathy. it really is a great loss to lose a good dog. At my age I've lost several and each one hurt. Unfortunately it's part of living with and loving dogs.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.