Her family hired mariachi musicians and had them come into the house as if it were any ordinary party. But it wasn’t: the next day, they were going to put her to sleep for good.
Terminal-stage cancer had stolen her time, and all that remained for them was to give her a farewell worthy of how much they had loved her.
The mariachi musicians sang “Amor Eterno”, the song Juan Gabriel wrote for his deceased mother, while Cattaleya wagged her tail without understanding why everyone around her was crying.
The user @felioks23 uploaded the video to TikTok with a simple message: “I miss you so much, Cattaleya”. Thousands of people who had never met her ended up crying with them.
Because everyone who has ever had a dog recognized that particular pain of saying goodbye to someone who gave nothing but love and asked for nothing in return.