Life's a two-sided coin: goodbye Maxx

[sellersm]

When you think about it, life is a two-sided coin: life on one side and death on the other. In fact, you can't define death without life! Death is contingent upon the existence of life, but life is not contingent upon death!

This reality came abundantly clear to our family yesterday morning when we lost one of our border collies, Maxx. He had been sick last week, and on Friday we took him to the vet and he stayed there all day while they performed test after test and found nothing of any significance (except a whopping vet bill!). Saturday night he actually made it up the stairs to sleep in his normal place: on his dog bed, next to my wife. Sunday morning he went out back to do his morning routine and then laid down on the floor by the backdoor, and was gone a few minutes after that. No cries, no stress, no trauma, just silently went away... God was gracious, as always! HE is the one that made this two-sided coin!

Maxx was our 2nd rescued border collie (from Wyoming Border Collie rescue, they're not defunct) and was only about 8 or 9 years young. He fulfilled his purpose and his end of watch has come...

Thanks for letting me honor Maxx and the God that created him.

Maxx is the brown/white one next to Chip, our 1st border rescue:

[ChadAmberg]

I am so sorry. Loss always hurts.

The pair of them look exactly like my Streak and my parent's Indy years back before we lost the both of them. My current boy Ollie looks a lot like Chip.

[crays]

That's a tough one.

Good looking dogs.

My condolences.

Sent from somewhere...

[10x]

I am so sorry he is gone.. Dogs are such noble creatures they deserve to live longer. Tears your heart out to lose one of the family.

[Gman]

I am so sorry he is gone.. Dogs are such noble creatures they deserve to live longer. Tears your heart out to lose one of the family.

+1

You gave Maxx a good home and he returned unconditional love. As they said in the film Dances with Wolves, "Good trade."

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[DenverGP]

Looks like Maxx was a very good and happy boy. Cherish the years of love he gave you and you gave him.

[3beansalad]

Condolences my friend, nothing is quite as uplifting as a loyal canine. We lose them all too soon.

[Bailey Guns]

Hail Maxx!

Thanks for sharing part of Maxx's remarkable story.

[Mercula]

Sorry to hear bud. It’s never easy. Sorry for your loss. Go flip a coin for another pup ! There’s way too many seeing the bad side of that coin early.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]