The Very First Dog: Saying Goodbye to Quila

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is a hard one… so bring some tissues. This week, Rachel said goodbye to her first dog Quila, who died in her arms. Quila has been with Rachel since the very beginning. She was her very first dog. She moved from Costa Rica to Aruba and to Sweden as Rachel moved. Saying goodbye this suddenly is not easy. Rachel tells the story of Quila today, sharing how she adopted (stole) her, her personality, and how she was Benjamin Button-ing her way through life and thriving in the winter snow. After experiencing so much life and death over the past couple of months, Rachel has been left heartbroken but grateful. Still, there may be something meaningful in the fact that Quila took her last breaths where Finn took his first. Tune in for an episode that will hold your heart through the ups and downs. 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 kind of a hard one.
0:04.4	We had to say goodbye to one of our dogs to Kila this week.
0:09.8	She was my first dog, my first baby.
0:14.4	And I'm going to miss her so, so much.
0:18.2	There's been so much life and so much death over the past couple of months,
0:24.3	and I feel both heartbroken and grateful all at the same time.
0:29.8	And it's also so beautiful and strange how almost exactly a month after I gave birth to our
0:37.2	baby boy, we said goodbye to Kila in the exact same place.
0:43.2	Life is really beautiful and strange, so you might need some tissues for this episode.
0:49.2	I know I did.
0:54.0	Let's dive in.
0:55.1	Hi everyone, hello, hello, welcome back to the show.
1:03.2	Maybe you can hear on the sound of my voice.
1:05.4	I'm sure you can.
1:06.7	I'm trying to do my best to start off the show and have a good little intro here, but
1:14.3	I am speaking to you from just a very, very, very hard day today.
1:20.8	And also sort of processing this hard day together with you in real time.
1:27.4	I don't know.
1:28.8	I feel like when when big things come our way, or at least for me normally, I have some time
1:34.6	to process and digest and then eventually I come here on the show and I talk to you about it,
1:40.5	but today really is as close to real time really as we can as we can get.
1:47.2	So, we lost our dog this morning, our little Kila, my first dog,
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