The Life of a Dog and the Moments Between Hello and Goodbye

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The animal lovers out there will resonate with today’s episode… but it’s also a very sad one. Rachel and her family just received some incredibly hard news. Their dog, Laika, is in her final days. Rachel shares how she will prepare her daughter for this heartache, and how Laika has showed up as a protector throughout Rachel’s pregnancy. It’s cruel and unfair that every hello with a four-legged soulmate eventually leads to a goodbye, but the moments in between we can cherish forever… and they never really are further away than our hearts. Bring your tissues and tune in for an episode that will remind you to hug your fur babies tight. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the podcast is a quite sad one. We just received some really hard news about one of our dogs and
0:10.9	our
0:11.9	Navigating the end of their life right now. So this is a podcast episode about our love for animals about death
0:20.9	about saying goodbye and how so strangely saying goodbye is very connected with how we said hello and
0:29.4	invited them into our hearts in the first place.
0:32.7	So this one is definitely for all the animal lovers out there, but a little bit of a trigger warning that we talk about death today.
0:46.2	Let's jump in
0:51.5	Hello my friends. Hi, hi, hi. Welcome back to the show. I
0:56.8	Have been procrastinating recording this podcast all day
1:03.3	Literally, you know when you know you have something to get to but for whatever reason you just don't get there.
1:10.5	I keep picking up little projects and things around the house and oh, I gotta answer this email
1:16.0	I forgot and then oh, yeah, I was doing this and then I realized I have been baking bread since yesterday morning.
1:22.8	I'm in a big sourdough face now and my sourdough like it takes me about 24 hours to get a
1:29.8	I finished loaf and then I realized I started that process yesterday and I completely forgot so I picked that back up and
1:35.9	I'm just like
1:37.9	avoiding coming here and
1:42.1	The reason I am avoiding coming here is because I am sad
1:47.5	Yeah, you know crying. Yeah, I'm sad. I'm sad. We got some really really sad
1:58.5	News today and I still I'm still
2:02.5	processing and still kind of
2:05.6	Digesting what this means
2:08.0	But I guess we'll start right there
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