“An elderly dog, one that Fred Thomas loved very much, died in 2013. For many of us—if we’re lucky, at least—the death of a beloved pet is one of our first brushes with tragedy. A song touching on it will stir primal memories, and Thomas takes this simple and thematically boundless scenario and does just about everything you can do.-=-=-=-
He eulogizes his dog, who died at the vet, in language that”