This week, I planned on talking about the Netflix original series "Bojack Horseman," but nothing about this week has gone to plan and everything sucks and my dog is dying, so. I really just want to talk about that.
Everyone says the same things when their dogs die. "He was a good boy." "Everybody loved her and she loved everybody." Unless your dog sucked, but I feel like I've only known a handful of people who don't blindly adore their dogs. Everyone thinks their dog is the best, and everyone is right. Dogs are a gift to humanity. The relationship between an owner and their dog is a connection like no other. Dogs are loyal, loving, and always by your side, even though at times it seems like they don’t understand what we’re telling them. Sometimes it’s easy to feel like dogs don’t really understand anything other than food and walks and being carefree.
But there are some things that dogs do know better than us. Or at least, my dog did. He always knew when we were sad. He knew what it took to get our attention. He felt his liver start to get shitty and his gallbladder get inflamed or whatever the fuck, so he stopped eating. He stopped drinking. He's dying, and it’s really horrible to watch, because I love him so much. He’s always been my friend.
We get pets because animals offer us a unique and intimate friendship. You never buy a puppy and spend the whole first day with it thinking about the day it'll die, or the day you'll have to put it down. But that's the catch with getting a dog. The difference in lifespan is heartbreaking. Here you have this creature who you've watched grow up it’s whole life. And it's like just a second ago, he fit in the palm of your hand. But now he's old and sick, but you feel the same age as when you got him, even though it’s been 10 years. And he's dying and you're watching, and you're sad about it.
I'm really sad about it. And all I can do right now is write about it.
Anyway. Next week I actually do want to talk all about "Bojack Horseman." Season 3 of the series came out recently on Netflix, and I have watched all of it already. It is a masterpiece, it deserves to be talked about, and I am going to talk about it.
But I also just wanted to talk about dogs, and how they are a beautiful treasure but also a depressing reminder of the suddenness of mortality and that consciousness is fleeting.
I would promise that my next article will be less depressing, but "Bojack" is a pretty sad show, so come for the feels.
