This is a picture of a quiet time of ease between Matilda and Livvie.
Today Livvie began looking around for Matilda, sniffing everywhere, and coming to me, looking up into my eyes. I sat with her and spoke lovingly to her. She eventually stopped, and began chewing on her chew-bone. Earlier she had tried to come with me when I left the house. I think it took this week for her to realize that Matilda was not coming back. Matilda has been out of the house before, a couple of times when she had medical crises. There was one time when she was hospitalized for two or three days. I would so love to be able to know what Livvie knows, what she senses.
Right now she seems happy, and is having fun wriggling around on her back.