Max...Great Dog !!

 

Max

Our buddy !!

04-Oct-2019  -  12-Feb-2024

Max loved to ride in the car !

Max is gone.  He was older than we expected.  We didn’t raise him from a pup.  He was abandoned.  Some woman put him in our backyard 04-October-2019, just before Covid began spilling into the news.  The vet guessed at his age, but we later began to think she’d guessed low.

So, Max adopted us…and Max liked to walk.  A lot !  I have a step-counter/mile-counter on my phone.  Max and I had a 51-month long average of just over 2 miles per day.  We walked at 7:30am, noon, 5:00pm and one last time about 7:30pm, just like clock-work.  JUST like clock-work !  Do that math, it’s just over 3,000 miles !!  

Walking slowly through the neighborhood allowed us to connect with many neighbors Bren and I had never spoken to before.  The kids on the street all say “Hi Max !” as we pass by.

No kittycats in my yard today !!

Max was really a great dog.  We can’t claim to have trained him…it was more a case of him training ME about when and how we’d be walking.  He had a great disposition, which was especially good because he was a large dog, weighing 60 pounds.  

Relaxing a little...

His only down-side was that he didn’t get along well with cats…or possums (we had a possum in our backyard that Max encountered regularly).  Since he showed up just before Covid, his keeping us walking and active made our Covid experience much different than it would have been without him.

He was around for the time of Brenda's vision issues, 

and did his best to offer comfort.

Sadly, around 15 months ago, Max began having symptoms of a progressive condition that reduced his ability to control his hind legs.  At first, it was difficult to detect without watching carefully.  But it slowly progressed until last weekend, when he could just no longer get up and walk.  We finally were faced with the difficult decision, and his end came on Monday.

"Momma likes me, I like Momma"

A great puppy !  

We sadly miss him.

-M