Pets—Grieving—Keep Lovin’!

A Visit to My Old Dog’s Grave 21 Years After Laying Him to Rest

A dreamy walk with my kids.

Ryan Chin
Published in
5 min readMar 22, 2024

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2002 — Toughy’s gravesite at burial — Author Photo

Tears stream to the edges of my smile. My two kids and our pup meander ahead of me. The smell of pine wafts in the breeze, accented by sagebrush when our bodies brush past. Snow from a record snowpack survives in the August heat on distant…

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Ryan Chin
In Living Color

Author of The Big Head Diaries, stories of a lab from NZ, and Without Rain, a multimedia memoir. Email:thechinproject@gmail.com