Sad regrets:

The Keed.

Sabrina’s collar.

The saddest regret of all is that I never took Sabrina to other places beside Boughton park (the so-called “elitist country-club”).
She loved Boughton Park, but of course there are other places on the planet to stalk frogs, as she loved to do.
Mendon Ponds Park is the place I got ticketed for loose dogs: Tracy and the Sass — policed by suburban namby-pambies.
It also was the nature-preserve where Sass gaily bounded about with a dead gosling in her mouth. (“Hot-te-tott; hot-te-tott. I got it, and you do not!”)
But Mendon Ponds had fabulous trails Sabrina would have loved to hoover.
And it had gotten so we were walking Sabrina on a leash; since she liked to wander off into the forest in search of rotting carcasses and deer-poop.
There are of course other places I wanted to investigate; primarily abandoned railroad right-of-ways converted to trails.
The Lehigh-Valley Trail is the old Lehigh Valley railroad’s Buffalo-Extension; built for 60 mph running and two tracks, therefore wide and straight-as-an-arrow. They’ve even paved it.
All that a dog might find interesting is beside the trail. In fact, it isn’t very interesting to me — not much physical challenge in an abandoned mainline railroad.
It still has the giant steel through-trusses, but other than that it’s boring; no giant fills or tunnels.

The other regret is not getting around to trade the CR-V for a more dog-friendly car (what I had in mind was the Toyota AWD Matrix wagon).
Killian could jump into the CR-V without problem, but to Sabrina the CR-V was intimidating.
She’d fall trying to get in; the door opened in her way, the folded-up rear seat partially blocked the entrance, and it was a high step.
We have a ramp, and fell to putting it onto the hitch so she could walk up into the back.
We also fell to using the Bucktooth-Bathtub, since she had much less trouble with that.

But none of these regrets are as heavy as.....
-A) Not putting Tracy out of her misery early enough,
and
-B) That Sass might have starved to death alone and utterly lost.
We always have to hope someone picked up Sassy and gave her a home.
But it wasn’t us; and I’m sure she would have missed us.

I plan to distribute Sabrina’s ashes at Boughton Park, off in the woods, east of the road-in we walked so many times, where she found the rotting deer-carcass, and once cornered a raccoon.

The “Bucktooth-Bathtub” is our 2005 Toyota AWD Sienna minivan; “Bathtub” because it’s white, and like sitting in a bathtub, and “Bucktooth” because it appears to have a bucktooth on the grill.

The “CR-V” is our 2003 Honda CR-V SUV.