Don't Mourn the death of Zeus, the world's tallest dog, for the wrong reasons. Rather, mourn that we're creating inbred purebred dogs that die before their fourth birthday. Mourn that we've got upper-middle-class people with beaucoup spare money to blow on a dog's battle with cancer, or, if they don't, will start a GoFundMe for a dog when we don't have Medicare for All. Mourn that we've got people talking in terms of the semi New Agey "War on Cancer." Mourn that we have an online new media reporter extending this "furkids" stuff so much that she talks about "his human mother."

I never thought I'd be writing the pet-oriented version of a "takedown" obit, but, there you go.