Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst DogDogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog