What gives you hope to keep going?
What gives you hope to keep going?
There's so much doom on social media right now. The environment is collapsing. The economy will crash. Civil rights are ending. Democracy is dead.
What keeps you going? Why do you still get up and go do what needs to be done when the world seems to be ending around us?
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My dogs. I stagger their ages so that I'll always have at least one and thus would feel too guilty to ever kill myself.
Planning 🧠
Nice. Mines about 3. Would you wait until 5 for a new one?
Depends on the breed / size of the dog. Large dogs have shorter lives. I like large dogs. About five years is a good age to get a puppy in that context. I wouldn't wait more than seven years.
Personally, I would say 3-4 is a good gap. That is what we have done with our last 3 pups, I wouldn't want them to be much farther apart as I feel like they wouldn't play or bond quite as well when the older one is more set in their ways and has less energy for puppy shenanigans
Ours are 11, 7, and 3.
My dogs were 16 and 7 when they passed last year. 😞
I'm so sorry for your loss. It's wonderful that you had one for so long, though.
Thanks, it was a rough year. Cancer is a real bummer.