hi there stacwase!

Murph is going to be 14 in Oct and I find that he is quite a bit more clingy now. He does not like to be left behind, if I take Oz somewhere. So he goes to agility with us. He's gotta stay in the car, but that seems to be okay. Just as long as he knows where we are.

The last hiking trip, he wouldn't leave the trail either. Idgie was jumping into the brush, but Murph had no interest. I even let go of the leash, something I never would have done when he was younger, and he stayed right with me.

He's a lil' bit crankier to Oz and Gully. In that he wants to decide when he's ready to play and otherwise he wants them to leave him alone. But towards me, he's his same happy go lucky self.

Maddie got quite a bit crankier to Oz and Murph towards the end too. Didn't seem to be much rhyme or reason for her though. She'd attack for no reason that I could see. I was a lil' worried, since she slept next to my head, that she might snap one night and go after me, but she never did. She was always her same loving self to me. Before I'd pet her, I'd always say "Maddie, It's me", just to make sure she didn't mistake me for Murph or Oz and she was fine. But boy if they bumped her, look out.

She also got very clingy the last couple of years of her life too. I'd try to leave her in the house in the a/c, while I was doing yard work, but it didn't matter how hot it was outside, she'd whine to be out there with me. She'd stay in the shade on the patio. So it was similar to Murph in that she just wanted to be near and know where I was.

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