Duke Hemstreet knew how it would end before it began. The dog he had just adopted was old and had cancer, and dogs like her rarely find someone willing to choose them.
“I can’t let her leave this world alone”, he writes over the images. And then comes the phrase that stayed with everyone who watched the reel: “If the price I have to pay to make a dog happy is having my heart broken, I’d do it a thousand times”.
Duke, who shares on Instagram the lives of senior dogs others have left behind, doesn’t hide what’s coming. He knows grief will come, and even so, he’d rather pay that price than let her leave without a hand to hold hers. Would you have said yes?