Our last dog before our current one had to be put down just shy of 15 years old, that was really hard to do and we didn't have a dog again for about 2.5 years or so after that. We finally adopted a dog from the Humane Society in Rapid City, SD just before Christmas of 2013. Can't believe how much I missed having a dog around until we got the new one, and fortunately this new dog really likes my wife which the last one did not.