Stay with your dogs as they die

You know those anonymous post cards that i forget the details about but people would send in saying random things they learned about life or personal secrets or world truths or whatever? read this one and feel your soul collapse into itself like a black hole of Sadz:

Extra crusher (for me): the pup behind the card-in-the-card looks a lot like my yellow lab, Buddy, who died a few days after Christmas in 09, so I was still at my parents house when he went and it just so happened that it was right before my dad left for work so the 3 of us were all around him, giving him a comforting pet as he sailed off into the blackness.

The thought of an animal, whose world is so limited as to not know much OF a world beyond its owner, being without that owner as it possibly panics or feels abandoned as its life fades away = heartbreaking šŸ™

UPDATE: visual reference/remembranceĀ of Buddy: