MeganMorris:
2024 was a hard year, but I’m grateful for the love I gave and the love I felt. Losing Stella is probably the worst loss I’ve experienced in any year, and I’m not really up for reflecting on it tonight publicly. But I’m living with the grief as best I can
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Merry Christmas Eve from this demon!
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This is one of my favorite photos of Stella; it was possibly one of her top cutest moments (and she had A LOT). I’ve set it as my phone wallpaper lately, and sometimes when I catch a glimpse of it I’m almost bewildered that I ever co-existed with such a b
MeganMorris:
Today marks five years since we adopted Ellie, meaning Stella was her best friend for just shy of that. From the moment they met she loved Stella fully, unconditionally, with her whole heart, the way Stella deserved to be loved. There was no question abou
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The last night of Stella’s life, I didn’t sleep more than two hours. She was uncomfortable and her breathing had declined sharply since that morning, and I was so afraid she’d stop breathing entirely—or worse, start to suffocate—that I stayed up and moved
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I knew losing Stella would be hard. How could it not? She was never just a dog, she was an integral part of our family, treated like a person. She was my partner in so many things, and we communicated with a shared, secret language built on mutual respect
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I’ve been dreading posting this because I don’t want it to be real: Stella is no longer with us. After a brief bout of slightly odd panting last week, she was diagnosed Tuesday with advanced metastatic cancer in her lungs. An oncologist confirmed this y
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This little bear was diagnosed with a pinched nerve in her back, but she’s a trouper and is in good spirits still. She also got groomed today; shoutout @chattagroomer for always taking the best care of her…. and for the Halloween bow that made me laugh.
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I tell people all the time that Stella is my soulmate—unabashedly, without hesitation. She’s also my favorite adventure partner, and today we’re celebrating her turning 11. And even though she’s been struggling with her health the last week, she’s in good
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Last week we had a scare with Stella when she woke up Friday morning and couldn’t stand up on her own. She got worse throughout the weekend until she screamed in pain Sunday night despite being pretty medicated with gabapentin and an NSAID. On Monday her
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Today is Ellie’s 11th birthday! She’s the goofiest, sweetest noodle horse who loves everyone—and everyone loves her. I don’t know how we ended up with a dog who loves strangers and children so much, but she’s really a delight to take out in public. But
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I’ll never stopped being impressed by the regular-ass housecat stuff Old Blue does.
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We’ve agreed that one blanket is ok. Any more on the couch and she starts scratchin’.
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I’m still thinking about how great the @deathcabforcutie / @postalservicemusic show was on Monday. Transatlanticism and Give Up were such important albums for me back in the day and though they hit a little different now, they’re both still brain-soothing
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After three weeks, Stella got her stitches out yesterday! She’s still wearing a cone/donut to ensure she doesn’t lick the suture sites, since the skin is new and still healing. But we are all very, very happy that she can get some normalcy back in her lif
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Ellie isn’t the biggest fan of having her picture taken, but she had a good time running around Warehouse Row a couple weeks ago for a mini photo session with @lindseylowephoto. I hadn’t planned on being in all the photos, but Ellie had other plans so we
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Yesterday right as the eclipse was happening, Stella decided she had to go outside. Since she’s still recovering from surgery she can’t go unattended, so I leashed her up and out we went. It was cloudy, and the light was gray like it had been during the l
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It was sunny and brisk 10 years ago today when we drove to the Alpharetta, Ga., location of @furkidsatlanta to meet a six-month-old puppy I’d seen a couple weeks before on Petfinder (while drunk at 1 a.m. 😅). We arrived at the center before he
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Stella’s been having chronic skin and UTI issues for a few years, so on Monday she’s having surgery. And while I love her vet and the whole team over @riverviewanimalhospital, I’m sort of a mess about it. Stella is my best friend, my partner in crime, my
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I’m heartbroken to write that Greyworm passed away Saturday morning. I found her just before 8 a.m., underneath our bed on top of a tote. All signs point to her having passed peacefully in her sleep, most likely from an undiagnosed heart condition. She ha
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My longest coworker (10 years soon).
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Betty has really taken to this indoor cat thing.
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Snow day!
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After we brought Betty inside back in September, that left Greyworm as the last cat in our colony. She’s one of the OGs; she was either the second or third cat I TNRd back in 2018. I would never have considered bringing her inside a year ago, but she spen
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On Tuesday Ian and I drove to Atlanta to see @dogstarband, Keanu Reeves’ grunge/rock band that’s touring again for the first (and maybe last?) time since the late 90s/early 2000s. Because I couldn’t think of another chance I’d have to be in a room with Ke
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The week before Thanksgiving we spent a week on the beach in Cape San Blas, our favorite beach to visit with dogs. We walked miles every day, up and down the white sand, and when we weren’t walking I think Stella spent 90% of her time laying on the balcon
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We don’t know exactly how old Stella is. We know that when she was about 8 weeks old, @furkidsatlanta pulled her the day before she was scheduled to be euthanized at a north Georgia kill shelter after her three-day hold was up and all her brothers and sis
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I give Zelda a lot of shit about being a demon but then I do stuff like this and she doesn’t murder me, so maybe we’re even.
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Today Ellie turned 10! She’s accomplished a lot in her years—raced 88 races (with 3 wins), befriended every single cat she has met, visited a handful beaches and several states—but is most proud of rising through the ranks of the Stella Morris fan club to
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I try my hardest to practice cooperative care with Stella (and all our pets), but nail trims and ear cleaning are our albatross. Nail trims, thankfully, we can have handled by the lovely folks at @chattagroomer. I’ve been working up to ear cleaning with h
