Thread by @Petit_Smudge

I think my favorite thing about ging was that she was sort of a throwback. People of my generation sometimes treat their pets like humans but ginger was very clearly A Dog. She was a country dog and spent most of her time outside, I don’t know if she ever went to a pro groomer.

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Ging grew up in rural Indiana chasing turkey vultures and I think that’s where her stamina came from. She was up for anything, you could take her backpacking 15 miles a day, you could run a 10k with her, go on a cross country road trip and she was unfazed.

We also have no idea what kind of dog she was — husky heeler shepherd mix thing? But kids loved ginger bc she was so friendly and also bc she looked like what people doodle when someone tells them to draw a “dog,” like an emoji

Ginger loved: Elliot, running, her deflated basketball and eating old hot dog buns off the ground, in that order.

We don’t know exactly what happened to her. We went hiking and noticed she was really wobbly and tired, and we thought she might just be finally getting old but El made a doctor appointment when we got back. By the time her vet apt came she was hardly walking.

It turns out her red blood was really low, which likely meant cancer or a bone disorder or some kind. There was no way to know unless she got an emergency blood transfusion and a whole slate of tests. Which we didn’t want to put anyone through just to know she was incurably sick.

So Elliot and I had to make a really quick decision to euthanize her last night at the vet. I was actually relieved that she hardly seemed suffer at all and had spent the last month of her life doing ginger stuff :

Honor gingers memory:
Eat your fave garbage (alley hot dog)
Run around in the woods
Jump on top of things. Why? Who knows !!

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