it is not just a dog i bury today, but my best friend. you have been a noble guardian, and a loyal companion all of your life. as you lived you brought me great comfort and joy, and in your death, a part of me dies with you. your suffering is over, but mine is just beginning, for love knows not its own depth until the time of seperation. farewell friday friday lived to be almost 15yrs. old, her last gasp of life was to raise herself off the table and throw her snout to my neck and gasp in my ear, my vet of many years, and a dane owner, jumped back and said he had never seen anything like that in his career.