I read that dog's last day post but it took me several tries to get through it all. We are responsible for our furchildren in ways we are never responsible for the people around us - not even human children as they are expected to attain independence. They love us in a way very few of us know in any other relationship. They ask so little of us. And the ones that are the most dependent on us because of age or disability seem to be the ones we miss the most.