No, I didn't go along: We were supposed to go there for a cousin's wedding last year, but then Duterte closed it down for a few months to clean up the place (too much floating garbage, illegal buildings etc.) so the wedding reception was held in Bataan instead (now a nature center area).
Here, I had to have George, our cat killing Labrador, put to sleep. He went blind from cataracts and then developed a sarcoma, but was still the "alpha dog" that kept us safe. I had him on steroids for bone pain and anti histamines to help him sleep and he was comfortable, still snarling at the younger dogs and trying to chase cats.
But yesterday he developed 2 abscesses around his tumor despite antibiotics and had a lot of pain. With the drug war, it's hard to get narcotics to control the pain so he could die at home like our previous dogs. He was 13, so very old. Sigh,
so we buried him in the garden, and put flowers and two candles on his grave and said a prayer that he would go to dog heaven.
Now we only have medium sized dogs. They stay in a pack so would scare burglars away, but they aren't as scary as George, who would snarl and attack strangers, including visitors who would go up to him because he looked friendly and find out he wasn't really nice.
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