We have had soooooo many dogs over the years but 2 of them were particularly hard to lose....one was like losing a kid!
The other dog I just love to death is the "Boss" of the house, Max, who is a 13 yr. old Yorkie!
ALL the dogs are afraid of him, he runs the show, that is all 5.5 lbs of him...
EVERY dog we have had was a free dog(Yeah Right, if you have a "free" dog you don't take care of it) LOL
My daughter is a Dog Stylist, and works part time at a Vet Hospital, she brings home every dog she sees that is a puppy and sick, doctors them back to health, and Max protects them from the other dogs....she then re-homes them to someone, usually a home she already got to take a previous dog she had....she is good at that somehow!
Sorry for your loss, I definitely get it....our house backs right up to a park, and we have 100's of deer in the area, and millions of ticks....Lyme disease is a big, NO. HUGE threat around here and she pays particular attention to flea and tick medicines...
Frontline used to be the top tier medication for them around here for years and years, but it "NO longer works" in this area (West St. Louis County, but basically the state of Missouri)....so read up on them if you have a pet....
Our dogs would go out in the "yard" which is fenced, and come in with 4-5 ticks on them when we used frontline medication towards the end....I would cut the grass with a riding mower, then finish it with a push mower and get s few on me in 5 minutes until we used the flea/tick spray for the yard...now it is a big yard with woods on one side of it....
I'm NOT saying Frontline isn't any good, because it was great for decades...the vermin in this area have developed an immunity to it is what I am telling you, that is from the Vet hospital, I don't know anything! LOL