Elegant Elderly Dogs

Bodely - 12 years old

Bodley – 12 years old

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Clovis- 14 years old

Toronto-based photographer Pete Thorne has a touching series of elderly dogs entitled Old FaithfulFor those of us who own dogs, the thought of our best friends growing old and dying in just a handful of years is tough, and a very sad fact of life. Sigh. Via Laughing Squid:

The Old Faithful project did its first house call yesterday to meet and photograph Mance here. Mance is a 13yr Old English Bulldog, a breed close to my heart. He has bone cancer that adds a lot of character to his face. He’s in a pretty fragile state so I made my first trip out of the home studio to photograph him, in all his asymmetrical charm.

Mance - 13 years old
Mance – 13 years old

Dallas - 14 years old
Dallas – 14 years old

Fink - 14 years old
Fink – 14 years old

Finnegan - 12.5 years old
Finnegan – 12.5 years old

Mason - 11 years old
Mason – 11 years old

Stella - 12 years old
Stella – 12 years old

Toto -16 years old
Toto – 16 years old

Weeze - 10 years old
Weez – 10 years old