If Ruby could speak our language, I’d like to think she’d say, “Thanks for the food and fresh water and affection, but really, I’m ready to go.”
It was the eyes that did it. The skinny mixed-breed dog stared out from her cage at the animal shelter, hoping to go home with somebody, or at least that’s what animal foster mother Carol Ann Reagh thought.
She didn’t want Ruby—which is what she and her husband named her—to slip through. They wanted to give her a second chance. Even after Ruby was plumped up and healthy-looking, she was still wary of strangers who approached her, which meant she’d been treated harshly before she was rescued by the Reaghs. Soon she learned to accept pats and hugs. It took time, but Ruby, the once skinny foster dog, found her real home with a family called Foster. Full disclosure: Ruby was adopted by my daughter and her family—the Fosters.
In her elder years, Ruby grew stiff with arthritis the way most of us do. She limped along from couch to rug to yard, always with a slow determination to keep on going. Her tail wagged lower and lower, like a flag at half mast. She seemed to sleep more and more, but rallied when she went on a boat ride with the family, her ears flying back in the wind and her nose pressed forward, sniffing out new scents on Guntersville Lake.
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