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ap straight in or turn and slide as if he were trying to make a base ahead of a throw in baseball the rapid combination of feet and paws pushing pulling and doing every uncoordinated thing to get as much tickle contact at once made the whole day fade for both of us his smile would get so broad that his eyes crinkled on the sides and his few remaining teeth would be visible in the back he d stretch his hippy pippers for me as a part of his ongoing therapy for arthritic hips he loved it and it felt good for him to get his scritches on his legs but it also served to loosen him up before his walk then we d play peekaboo which he loved for whatever reason his paws going up to the sides of his face but never quite covering his eyes not that he couldn t but he wouldn t stop looking at me once we were done and both of us had sighed he d stand up shake it out and lean forward to get face time he d lean his face toward mine and we d go forehead to forehead with eyes level just so he could stare at my eyes up close i always told him every single day that i missed him all day and thought about him and loved him every single day i know he didn t understand the nuances of language but he knew what i meant and you could see his happiness we d go walkies from there at the beginning he was almost lame and couldn t go far his hips were stiff and legs unsteady we quickly discovered that he had a badly torn cruciate ligament in the right knee and a slight tear in his left one he had surgery in 2008 about 6 months after he came to me after the long process of recovery his walks got longer in the last 6 months he seemed to have an urge to go further and stay longer he began to yearn for the longer walk even as i could see an increasing unsteadiness in his bad legs and a certain frailness in him on the way home even tired as i could see his was he would stop and pull to go back for more the shadow of the future would come to me often then and i d be gripped by this certainty that time was running away from us but once we got inside he sighed a few times to get his breath back and had a drink our evenings were filled with a calm and happy love it may sound boring and perhaps it was but boscoe wasn t just a good dog that loved me in that obsessive way so many rescues do it was that we were simpatico he liked to do what i liked to do and i liked to do what he liked to do minus the occasional wee wee licking and digging up worms to eat that is that was all him other than that we had a blast he liked to garden with me carefully peering at whatever i was doing and inspecting the baskets for edibles i liked to kick back and pet him as his liked and thought it was a hoot when he d watch his animal youtube videos cocking his head and staring at the screen and following the action with his eyes i discovered that he loved puppies and cats puppies more than cats but he d be happy with either puppies made him roll over and show his belly and ever so carefully nudge them close to him so he could keep them next to his belly just like a mother he d sniff them with the most serene expression and i wondered then at what his life was like that gave him this protective compassion over the young he also loved bernice who is also known as satan s kitty she lives outside because she can t live inside safely and has an unnatural love of my dogs boscoe loved her right back and every single day on coming home from his walk she would bump her head on his and he would sniff and bump right back sometimes she would follow us on our walk until we left her territory a clearly marked line she always turned back at boscoe and gigi both turned back to look at her when she did this as if to say we ll be back chill on to a more delicate matter boscoe was the only living thing that pooped hilariously i don t mean just a little bit cute or funny i mean laugh out loud in front of the neighbors hilarious because of his weaker hips and acl surgery he had a wide stance but he hunkered down like a frog and then because he wasn t in prime position he would grunt not a little but a serious amount of grunting followed by a long grunt at the moment of truth no he wasn t constipated it was just his way if he was seeing something interesting he would keep watching it and making a good many noises along with the grunting so imagine a combo of a whine excited yip from an old hoarse voice a groan and a grunt all at once coming out of a dog splayed so far wide that he looks like he s straddling a set of parallel bars got that yep that s it by the way he had several vet visits where we asked about this grunting there really wasn t anything at all wrong with him in that way he was just a grunter he also often made a grunt sigh when he went pee after he woke up in the morning i m going to chalk it up to boscoe being a total guy he did have a whole host of other things that needed caring for did you know that dogs have 40 adult teeth by the time he had his first dental he was minus 26 of those yep 26 a total of 18 were removed that round he d lost a few already from decay but it was clear he d never had dental of course why would he he likely had no name he loved getting his teeth brushed and found the toothpaste delish and those few teeth he had i brushed religiously the water pik he didn t like so much so we switched to squirting water into that gap where he d lost bone above his one remaining good chewing spot with those bulbs people use for baby s noses worked like a champ but he had very pretty shiny cute and perfectly straight incisors and he learned to smile all on his own trying to copy me we called it showing teefies and it was an effective method of prying treats out of me his ccl surgery was posted on the blog when it happened and his arthritis and degenerating spine needed care and attention and a moderate daily two doses of rimadyl to control pain and swelling and the liver checks frequently to ensure no side effects of it he also had a bad thyroid that was easily controlled he developed a great post nasal drip from allergies in those final months too really though caring for boscoe s physical needs took maybe 5 minutes a day and cost very little i can t encourage people enough to be understanding and caring of your dog as they get older it always sounds worse and difficult when the doc s tell you when something is wrong than it turns out to be in actual work to do i determined that having a old man beagle is really the very most excellent thing ever despite these small matters he also had many awesome physical characteristics boscoe had a fat square butt yes square and his fat little feet below that made watching him trot along like he did a joy he was just cute it was almost like he became more and more puppy ish looking the older he got i never saw anyone who didn t smile at him when we passed them on a walk in the car people would point and wave not at me at him he just had that inviting puppy ish look everyone who met him whether at petsmart the park on a stroll or at the vet always left with a face that made it clear they thought this dog thought they were special that s a real gift he would have been a great campaign politician boscoe also liked watching things outside fireflies fascinated him and he would sit down comfortably and watch them turning his head all around just as the flash faded i have a lot of fireflies for some reason every year so long summer evenings made for excellent watching i was just outside last night watching the display of so many more than i ve ever seen and longing for boscoe to be there with me speaking of summer evenings boscoe wasn t much of a summertime boy i would have thought with his hips and arthritis that he wouldn t like winter but perhaps his terrible thyroid made the heat just too uncomfortable even with the meds he loved the winter this past year we had one of the biggest snows in the history of this area and boscoe acted like he was in heaven head up ears pert neck tall and chest out he would lead me a merry way as i struggled to stay upright following him when i opened the door that next morning to a world of deep white fluff he looked up at me like i d just given him the greatest present ever i m so glad he got that he died on april 19th as i ve said that is just about when i start getting blooms on things at my house my dogwood tree for example should start then the last few years i ve not done well with it though last year they stayed green and the year before they were very sparse it looked like they might stay green again this year though there were many of them boscoe always wanted near that tree to pee on it but i wouldn t let him thinking it would be bad for the tree this winter and spring he got to it a few times and seemed inordinately triumphant about that i was worried it might kill it but since it had done so poorly i figured nothing would hurt at that point the day after boscoe passed i was balling of course and couldn t go to work because i couldn t stop crying i brought gigi outside and there it was covered from crown to lowest branch with pure white blossoms spring had sprung that night apparently because every one of the green blossoms had turned it probably started on the night of boscoe s incident and continued throughout the day of his passing without my notice i attribute it to the pee of saint boscoe of second chances i guess those second chances work on trees too i suppose no tribute to boscoe s life would be complete without a mention of sleeping i mean exactly how many pictures do i have of boscoe in bed i dunno that s how many there are boscoe was a bed hound when he first came home he didn t know about beds or anything else like that for a few months he slept with gigi downstairs in the laundry room which gigi prefers not being a bed hound herself without a problem at some point i brought boscoe upstairs to bed one night i can t remember if it was the day after his teeth were done or what not but i do remember it was because i needed to monitor him through the night that was all she wrote for the bed once he discovered the joys of a 18 inch mattress pillow tops and fluffy duvet s and pillows he was not going back when i tried to put him down with gigi that next night he howled in his hoarse bare voice most piteously and we never slept apart after that even when i was recovering from foot surgery and couldn t tolerate the bed moving at all he was up there with me he was an excellent sleeper i have to say i got to where i couldn t go to sleep without his little snore fest first boscoe snored abominably when he was first dropping off to sleep but once he was fully asleep he stopped he also didn t like getting up in the morning when my alarm would go off the second alarm was boscoe letting out a huge groan and covering up his face in anticipation of the light going on on weekends he would sleep until you woke him no problem sleeping in at all in my house though i rarely did indulge having two beagles who love to sleep late in the mornings is a rarity i really do appreciate having getting ready for sleep was another ritual he loved when it was time to go upstairs and i went around locking things and turning on the alarm boscoe would prance around in his lumbering way and wait by the stairs thumping his tail loudly on the floor sometimes he could walk up the stairs with me a stair below him with hands out in case he faltered other times i just carried him i d put him in bed and he d perform the typical walking around in circles before laying down and staring at me i ll be honest at first it made me uncomfortable the way he stared while i was getting ready for bed it s a bit creepy brushing teeth washing face putting on creams and all of that was done under boscoe s watchful eye everyone time i peeked at him his tail would thump and often he d lift his left paw and thump it back down as if to hurry me up buddha always takes this opportunity to perform his evening ablutions as well usually buddha made it to bed with boscoe before me and they had their buddy kisses and bed arrangements settled once pj s were on and lights going off i have a habit of reading a bit in order to get sleepy no offense to the many good authors i read reading at bedtime is something of a trick and i m glad i got the kindle it made things so much easier boscoe would pull my hand over to him over and over as i read whenever i turned a page the kindle meant he didn t need to pull quite so often i always gave him his mars rations which is really just half a granulated rawhide treat for weaker chewers if i didn t he had this great intense stare reminder method he d sit up and stick his head around whatever i was reading and as soon as i looked up he go all googly eyed over at the decorative cup i kept them in just his way of pointing i d usually say something like oh you want this lamp he d stare oh you want some of this water stare and tail thump because that is getting closer oh you want some of these mars rations massive thumping tail and doggie grin insert treat hunker and hold it carefully while crumbling it why did we call it mars rations well that is because of the dreams of course i didn t know the difference between boscoe s dreams and nightmares at first i got to know which was which after a time but at first they all sound like nightmares don t they i would wake up who can sleep through a really active doggie dream or nightmare and sooth him and talk to him until he settled when it was just a regular but vigorous dream i stopped waking him but we started calling it chasing giant green rabbits on mars because of the vigorous activity hence mars rations as a token for good dreams that night his nightmares were another matter he didn t have them often but it makes me very angry at whatever he went through in his first part of life on a couple of occasions when i woke but before i could sooth him he would make the most pitiful sigh squeak of pain once awake he would get as close to me as possible sometimes shaking at first for the rest of the night he was just so happy and relieved to see me then that it broke my heart speaking of early life boscoe s life before home clearly never had included enrichment or leisure of any kind a hunter s life kept in a pen when trying hard to hunt and avoid a bullet for under performing doesn t leave much room for toys he had no clue what they were gigi on the other hand believes there are not enough toys in the universe for her and loves to play playing fetch and tug and boink with toys with gigi left boscoe uncertain and a little fearful at first he stood back and watched and only thumped his tail when i looked up and told him it s okay after a couple of years he still didn t truly understand playing with toys but he was getting the idea of playing being fun he would jump and play bow and run back and forth between gigi and i while i threw her toys and had tickle time when she brought them back h...