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One of the pictures from my 14.5 year old dog's last day (Tuesday). He had a good last day. He lost 10% of his body weight in the last 18 days from refusing to eat anything other than a tiny bit of expensive fresh organic meat. Was barely able to stand up with help and walk.

Golden retriever lying down in their bed looking content/happy despite everything that's wrong.

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I’m so sorry for your loss 💜 he sounds like a great dog

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Yeah, all the regulars in the park (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withrow_P) knew him and even at 12.5 years old he was still running around / retrieving. Everyone thought he was way younger than he was until the past couple years. He even got along well with otherwise very aggressive dogs.

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Some of his long time friends were pit bulls rescues with issues unable to be walked in that park even on a leash. He got along really well with almost any dogs not being either submissive or dominant. Previous dog was an *extremely* dominant golden. Had to be more careful.

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Toronto bylaws of course require walking dogs on leash outside off leash areas. However, Withrow Park culture is that well behaved dogs are mostly off leash. Means there's a ton of dogs there. Insane how many dogs there post-COVID now. So many people got puppies during lockdown.