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A Leave From an Absence
Sometimes a pets name doesnt sink in, doesnt take. I read once that pets, especially dogs, can best learn their name if it contains two distinct syllables. Perhaps thus was spawned Fi-do and Fi-fi. So when we tagged our animal-shelter survivor as Cosmo Topper Puppy Moore, his moniker was doomed from the beginning. He learned the Puppy part, and the rest of his label seemed to fall on peanut-buttered ears. So Puppy it became.
Puppy was epileptic. We didnt know dogs could be, but yes, the recurring seizures are not unlike those of their human friends. But he lived beyond his odds, finally giving in to the toll at age fifteen. Owners all know that the loss of a pet exacts a predictable reaction:
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