Old White park died

This old alpha of the pack died at 10 am. I heard that he cried a lot in the end.:(

I'd been healing off the distemper attacks for months now but this time his flesh just fell off and he was just bones in 2 weeks. His improvement of last week just vanished before this spell of rain.

He leaves behind a scared feral group of 3. He led their survival of the periodic firecracker hell the city becomes by the ancient dog run around the entire neighborhood for about a week. Very dangerous roads but his wily routes were the key to their long lives. He's left the group in the hands of a zealot dominant.:(

The care ppl took of him I hope will relieve their anxiety wrt humans to some extent. For the first time, I saw ppl leave a dying dog alone while offering it food and water. Such amazing awareness and kindness to let this king of dogs choose where he dies!

He was delirious by the time I left him at 10 pm last night, as the brain changed with dehydration. He played like a puppy with a stick and rolled a couple of times on his back from side to side (he loved being healed with Grindelia so much). His eyes which had sunken had come out in 2 days. But it was too late for the energy to work it's way into his spine and brain. It was still working on him - first his nose, then eyes, then his left wrist, then between the shoulders, then the liver and spleen chakras ... that's as far as I got on the peripheral nerves & meridians. Long way off for the kind of weather change we've been on. He died hard.

RIP.