"Go play!" The root of a Labrador's life

Challenge and injury never dulled Whiskey's spirit, nor should it dim ours

Whiskey with a western Oklahoma bobwhite. Photo by Kelly Bostian

“OK, go play now. You go play.”

Those were Whiskey’s favorite words whenever we stepped out of the truck or the back door. His release command to run and play and just be a dog.

And they were the last I would ever speak to him as he slipped away the morning of January 2.

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