Woman & Home South Africa

ALZHEIMER’S my dog & me

My German shepherd, Mozart, and I had landmark birthdays recently. I hadn’t been looking forward to either of them – another year older for us. My fur son has overtaken me, and is now eight years older than me, in human years. I dread the day he goes.

Mozart is unconcerned by such semantics. He is not troubled by the future; he’s a free spirit, as I once was.

He does not have Alzheimer’s. In the morning, when my husband gets out of bed, Mozart jumps

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