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🐕‍🦺 Kona 🌈2008-26
🐕Blue: Goberian &👸of♥️
🐷Loki: Little🧔🏼‍♂️-BIG ‘tude
🦊Foxy: 👱🏼‍♂️Terrier = 🧠
🧸Winnie:👶🏼Muppet mix & da baby
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5 days since my world shifted. Before I speak of grief, I want to speak of love, because that’s what filled Kona’s final day. Her last hours were quiet & sacred. Surrounded by soft voices, gentle hands, & the people who loved her most. Our home held both heartbreak & gratitude, knowing we were helping someone we love find peace. She left gently, she left surrounded, & deeply loved. And then the silence arrived. 5 days since my world slipped out of its orbit. 5 days of waking up & remembering, then remembering again. Grief, in these early days, isn’t gentle. It’s raw, disorienting. It’s a landscape I didn’t choose, yet now must learn to navigate. At night, I roll up the blanket I used to cover her, into the space beside me, shaping it into something I can hold. It still carries her scent. For fleeting moments, I close my eyes & pretend she’s still there. It’s both comfort & heartbreak. I’ve been wearing the same pj’s to bed, what I wore the last night I held her. Removing them feels like stepping one inch further away from her, & right now even an inch feels unbearable. Something I never expected, it’s hard to look at my other dogs, my sweet loves. In this acute grief, their faces are not hers, & that absence lands like a blow. I find myself looking away, not from lack of love, but because the love I am missing is so specific, so singular, so irreplaceable. This is acute grief. The kind that rearranges your breathing, makes you panic, makes time feel distorted. The kind that lands you in that sunken place. Losing something so deeply tied to your life story means learning how to exist in a version of yourself that never existed before. Yet I know this pain exists only because something extraordinary existed first, & my grief is love shaped like Kona. I know so many of you have stood here. Maybe you’re still here with me. You know this terrain. You know how heavy the air feels. You know how love, when it loses its physical home, can ache in ways that feel almost impossible to carry. So I sit in this unfamiliar version of myself, holding a love that no longer has a body, but still has a heartbeat inside me. Eternity wouldn’t have been long enough with my KonaBear🖤 taken in Rainbow Bridge by @da_rascal_blue

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🥳The eldest of our pack, my SoulDog, my heart. For 17 years Kona has been my shadow, my joy, my teacher in love and loyalty. Oh how I treasure her💫✨🌟
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Happy Birthday, sweet Kona. You are my once-in-a-lifetime girl🥳🐾💖
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#lovedogs #dogstagram #mydog #instadog #dogsofinstagram #dogoftheday #bestwoof #dogsofig #doglover #petsofinstagram #mygirl #seniordogs #seniordogsofinstagram❤️ #seniordogsrock taken in Birthday Girl❤ by @da_rascal_blue

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a year ago

This account is usually reserved for posting tongues out, tails bobbing, toothy grins, our costumed canines, & lighthearted antics. At times we’ve shared sad insta-friend news, or complained about runny poop, but mostly it was dogs in wigs next to bottles of wine.🍷
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Sometimes the hardest parts of our lives never make it onto our feeds. They live in the quiet, pulling us away for a season while we privately carry what can’t be shared in pictures or posts. The main reason I took leave from this beloved space a couple years ago, was to be a caregiver for my father Wally, & I found that I simply didn’t possess the emotional or mental bandwidth to maintain our Insta account simultaneously.
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It was my privilege making as many memories as I could over the past couple of years, storing them in my ‘Dad Vault’, located in both chambers of my heart❤️ I devoted myself to my father, soaking him up through every pour of my soul✨
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At age 95, the greatest man I have known, tipped his hat & exited the building 178 days ago, on March 6th. Grief is a strange club to belong to; one nobody ever asks to join. But in it, I’ve learned how love doesn’t disappear; those we’ve treasured, whether with skin or fur, or furry skin, they aren’t gone…they’re just in another room💫✨♾️
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Thank you, friends. To those who never unfollowed during the quiet, and even to those who were here only for a while…I’m grateful for you all🩵. Thank you for holding space for the human behind the paws 🐾, as I learn to carry joy and sorrow side by side.
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#GriefJourney
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#healingwithdogs taken in Sad Eyes Club by @da_rascal_blue

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a year ago

What do you get when you combine an unreasonably hot & humid summer weather, with a muppet?
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ANSWER: A dang short haircut.😜
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Fur length clearly has 0 impact on Winnie’s goober energy.😆 We love all versions of the Pooh🧸 taken in Zoomies by @da_rascal_blue

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a month ago

Happy National Dog Day to the greatest teachers of unconditional love I have ever known. From our pack to yours ~ Blue🐾Loki🐾Foxy🐾Winnie🐾Kona🪽 by @da_rascal_blue

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a month ago

The secret to living your best life is simple:
Have zero responsibilities, run freely on the beach, get sand absolutely everywhere, & make sure your human handles all transportation, snacks, & post-beach baths. 😂🐾🌊☀️🛁

⛱️HAPPY WEEKEND🏖️

Honestly, they may have cracked the code. taken in Vista del Mar Beach by @da_rascal_blue

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a month ago

🪽🖤My Kona. My heart. My souldog🖤🪽 by @da_rascal_blue

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2 months ago

They asked, “Who’s your favorite rapper?”
I said, Blue. Obviously. 😎🎤🐾
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Album dropping never. Attitude dropping daily.
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Incredible edit by @digital.paws 🌈✨ taken in Rappers In My Backyard by @da_rascal_blue

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2 months ago

❤️🇺🇸💙May we continue the work of building a freer, kinder, and more peaceful nation. Happy Independence Day, from the Fabulous Four.
L to R: Foxy🐾 Loki🐾 Winnie🐾 Blue🐾🎇🎇🎇 by @da_rascal_blue

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3 months ago

You happened. You were real. You were perfect. I miss us, so very much.
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#souldog #petloss #grief #imissyou #💔 by @da_rascal_blue

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4 months ago

Dogtor Blue saves the day 🩺🐶🧸 @da_rascal_blue taken in Digital Paws Australia by @da_rascal_blue

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4 months ago

We all know ’em, those squirrel-obsessed doggos.
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Blue has been chasing squirrels for years and remains undefeated at not catching them.
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To be clear, she’ll never be allowed to catch one. The joy is in the chase, not the outcome. The squirrels get exercise, Blue gets exercise, and I get a comedy show.🐕🐿️ taken in Obsessed With You by @da_rascal_blue

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