Wednesday it was one year since my Teddy died at the age of nine. I spent about an hour at his gravesite that day and laid some artificial flowers there. Teddy had an auto-immune disease that nearly killed him in 2012, but he had made a miraculous recovery.

Some of his fur stared falling out and The vet had me shampoo him with a special formula. Other tests and a sonogram found he had bladder cancer. On the day he was scheduled for surgery, he was sick and they could not operate. Despite… Continue