A grieving dog got the chance to say goodbye to her best friend, a senior Chihuahua mix who died from terminal illnesses. The moving moment was caught on camera and immortalized in a series of photos that has tugged at the heartstrings of thousands.
Yari, looking at Pepper’s grave. (Courtesy of Tona Gonzales Karlsson)
Pepper was already a 9-year-old senior pup when his owner, 31-year-old Tona Gonzales Karlsson, adopted a German shepherd mix, Yari, in September 2017. Despite their odd-couple appearance, the two of them became fast friends.
“Pepper was the sassiest, bossiest dog ever,” Karlsson, a Santa Cruz county jail therapist from Watsonville, California, told The Epoch Times of his personality….