Lennier, 2010—2026

Lennier We let Lennier go this afternoon. He’s the oldest dog we’ve ever had at 16 years, 4½ months, and was happy and active until the very end. Which is a miracle because he had a crazy amount of things wrong with him, including Megaesophagus, Myasthenia gravis, and some sort of inflammatory bowel disease. He got a steady dose of medication by the end, eight different times during the day and night. He came to us on March 31st, 2012 from Andrea’s mushing partner Bonnie. He was part of a “Babylon 5” litter with Lennier, Delenn, Minbar, Zathrus, Dukhat, Tada (later know as Daisy Tada), Talia, and G’Kar, and as far as we know, long outlived all of them. For a few years Dukhat lived just up the road and Lennier would look over on our walks when we’d tell him his brother was living over there. Of all the dogs we’ve had, Lennier had the biggest personality. He was the silliest, most active, loudest, funniest, sometimes the fastest, one of the strongest, snuggliest, and as anyone knows who…