Yesterday I said goodbye to a good friend

Yesterday our pack got a lot smaller. Banjo, our biggest, and oldest, left us. He was the first dog I got in my adult life. He was just a couple months old when we got him and he was there for so many of my daughter’s early memories. Our life looks so different now. My daughter will start high school this fall. It feels like one chapter of our lives is coming to an end. Banjo was 12 and started having some issues back in January. I thought he was improving but, over the last week, he went downhill. I think he was fighting for longer than we realized. He was so tired and weak. I wish I could have given him a better life. I hope he knows that I tried and that I loved him.