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Milo loved the beach and I loved being with him on the beach. No matter what else was happening in our lives, Milo and I headed to the beach every morning around sunrise. And the summer of 1999 was such a hot summer and Milo loved running into the water and dunking himself to cool off. And then I’d go into the water and he’d swim after me because he always knew I had “cookies” - dog treats. I think he is the only dog I know who could eat and swim at the same time. At low tide, he would run in joyous circles around me. He made me dizzy just watching him and he made me laugh and cry for joy because there is nothing so enormous as seeing a Greyhound running with complete joy and abandon. So when he started limping, I thought it was because he had pulled a muscle or was getting arthritis. He was 8 years old which is getting old for a Greyhound because of all the steroids they are injected with at the racing track... And it was just a few weeks after he began limping that he was diagnosed with bone cancer and it was only a few weeks after that that Milo died. But the summer of 1999, when he ran like the wind and swam in the ocean like a fish, and made me laugh every day, and came running to me every time I said “cookie”, and greeted all his people friends who loved being at the beach at sunrise: James and Paul and Pat, and played with his dog friends: Maude, and Sophie, and GC. Yes, "those were the days, my friend, I thought they’d never end...."
I am crying because I only had Milo for 1-½ years and because of the abuse he had suffered, it took him nearly a year to trust me and then we had the most incredible 6 months of pure bliss and then he died. My heart is broken. I worked so hard and long to get him to understand that he would never be mistreated ever again. And then he finally understood and then his life was over. I miss Milo more than I can ever say. My tears will fall forever.
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