• grue@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    People likely to die in 10 years probably don’t often choose to adopt dogs.

    • smh@slrpnk.net
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      4 hours ago

      I’m not so confident. My grandma got a dog to fill the hole in her life left by my grandpa’s death. Nine years later I inherited a dog. (TBH, she was already on the deep slide into dementia when Grandpa died and losing her partner of 5 decades didn’t help.)

      What I’m saying is old folks sometimes do things we wouldn’t expect.