Izzy’s Last Days

How our dog chose his final resting place — and mine

Izzy through the years: a puppy embrace, lord of the living room, and still smiling on the trail with his sugar face.

Izzy died on August 21, 2020, around four in the morning. During the week or two before, he changed his behavior several times and did some unexpected things that were particularly striking and meaningful to me.

Over the last two years of …