3. A few days ago, I stopped into a Wausau vet to buy dog food. (This is not my regular vet.) When I was getting the stuff into my car, a couple walked out, and the man was carrying a rather large dog. It took me a minute to realize that the dog was dead. There's got to be something more dignified than carrying the animal out the front door, across the front parking lot, and down the sidewalk to the car Wow, that's a really sad story. I know if I was in your position, that image would haunt me a for a long time. But that's probably just the dog-lover in me speaking.