you were always a good dog

Comments: this piece was made with photobashing, the rosemary wreath and rosemary flowers were from stock photos and obviously the image of Rosemary is my own. I actually combined three different photos of her to get this pose, probably my most well-done photo edit yet.

when Rosemary was working as my service dog, I was constantly anxious about the idea that she wasn't good at her job because I was stuck in social media spaces where anything but robotic perfection implied that someone had a fake service dog. on the train ride to the emergency vet a week before she passed, I finally registered just how good she was at public access despite often sprawling out a little when she lied down. over the course of her last days alive, I was able to realize that all the weird policing online was always bullshit, that Rosemary has always been good and that I wasn't a bad person for not always being a perfect dog owner. this was the last thing I said to her once I was given the space to say goodbye to her alone.