I've been in my feelings off and on all day over Oreo.

I've been in my feelings off and on all day over Oreo. My heart still aches from his absence.

Not me, not his Aunt Taimi, and not even Oreo wanted things to end the way they did. She and I know how much he wanted to live.

I still don't understand how this dog, out of the many I've fostered and loved over the years, managed to change me like he did. But losing him hit different in a way I can't describe. Maybe it's how unfair it all felt and still feels.

My only real solace is that he didn't die on the streets. The love that Taimi and I poured into him changed his life. I know it did.