evidence: If you leave out "in Washington" and substitute "for life," it’s the best advice one can get from a president — or anyone else. Unfortunately, a dog’s life is shorter than ours, so we have to make room for the fact that we may lose our friends all too soon. My wife and I face that fact now with our 12-year-old Great Pyrenees, Ewing. [...] Many people have only one dog in their lives when the dog friend passes. If the dog is a service animal for the blind, for example, for the human left behind, they must come to grips with the huge loss.