In the end my boy fought so hard cancer had to call for reinforcements. 10 days ago he collapsed and lost all motor control in his hind end. Emergency determined he had degenerative spinal lesions that had likely been progressing for years undetected; I made the only fair choice we had left later that night

We did everything we could, and he was still having great days right up to the last. But ‘devastated’ is such an inadequate word for the void shaped by his absence