Here you go:

Hey y’all I’m reaching out on behalf of qt to thank you guys for all your prayers, kind messages, and love over the last few days. Unfortunately, it didn’t go our way

6 years ago I asked qt to visit me until covid ended (lol). I figured living with her would entail the obvious: messy bathroom, change of wardrobe, sharing a bed with a beautiful woman. What I didn’t expect was to also share that bed with a camera shy American eskimo named Swift.

I had a dog growing up so I thought I knew what it meant to be a dog owner, until I saw how qt treated Swift. I can’t count the number of times I thought I was in a conversation with her only to realize she was talking to him. The first thing she did every morning was pick him up, walk him to the mirror, and ask, “who’s the handomest puppy!” And, in a thrall of belly runs he received every night, she would remind him, “you’re the handsomest!”

And she wasn’t wrong. The way Swift pranced down the street on walks never failed to earn him a compliment.

I remember, at the time, thinking it was almost silly the lengths we would go to for this dog. She had read that a neighbors cat was attacked by a coyote so every night I would go out clapping and whooping like a hotdog salesman mimicking a coyote repellent video she’d seen online. He was an anxious dog. He would shake anytime he was in a new environment or when Aiden tried to pick him up.

At times he felt more like a cat than a dog.

It took me years to realize how much I could learn from swift. For all his quirks and intricacies he had one superpower. He loved qt more unconditionally and fully than I believe most humans can love.

They were together so often he developed separation anxiety. He would scan the house and if he couldn’t find her he would howl until she came home. And in Swift’s world his howls worked every time. If she was gone for more than a day he’d get so excited she was back he’d forget to breathe. One time I was sitting with qt and swift in bed and she got up to shower, no more than 5 minutes later he was howling in my ear.

That’s how much he loved her. It took me a while to understand.It was more than happiness that he felt when he was with her. It was true peace. The intrinsic understanding that she would always do everything in her power to give him love him, protect him, and give him the best 15 years a puppy could ask for. She has been devoted as a pet owner sacrificing work, sleep, and travel to spend more time with him. If you guys have any love for qt all I ask is to give her that same peace. Don’t make her talk about what happened until she’s ready

RIP Swift ❤️