Goodbye my little Musketeer

Porthos is still not his usual lively, almost annoying self but, he can now walk and eat what you put in his bowl. He looks at me with contempt each time I try to force his medicine into his mouth but, he's getting better and that's all we want. However his brother, Athos, our mighty black puppy who barks like a grown dog and scares everyone with his growl, died just today. It's something that we really didn't see coming. I know he's just a dog but I feel like I lost quite a big part of me and I don't even know why. So, it's one musketeer down, and it's my favorite musketeer down. They say that animals don't have souls but just in case they're wrong and little Athos is now in Heaven, I hope they give him lots of bones and lots of milk.