A retired sheriff and his tiny K-9 partner – who were inseparable – died the same day

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Apparently they had been inseparable.

The big dog park in the sky is where they are heading.

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There are National Guard troops walking around in my neighborhood in combat gear with assault rifles and hummers. This is a bad time to post the cute cop story.

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Given some of the comments here, just thought I’d post something positive about cops and small dogs:

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Kurt Vonnegut coined a term for this linking in Cat’s Cradle. He called it a duprass - a karass of only two people, who almost always die within a week of each other.

Another example of a duprass is Buckminster Fuller and his wife, Anne:
“During the period leading up to his death, his wife had been lying comatose in a Los Angeles hospital, dying of cancer. It was while visiting her there that he exclaimed, at a certain point: ‘She is squeezing my hand!’ He then stood up, suffered a heart attack, and died an hour later, at age 87. His wife of 66 years died 36 hours later.”

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^this

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Rest In Peace, Sheriff McClelland and Midge. It must be incredibly difficult for the family to lose them both at once, but there’s probably a level of comfort knowing that they’re together.

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