Marley and Me

They decided to get a farm animal and ended up getting chickens. This was when john noticed that Marley was going deaf. He noticed that when the chickens crowed he did not even budge, then one time he went up behind him and called his name and claped his hands and Marley didnt even budge.
It was becoming very hard for Marley to go up the stairs. He would not sleep downstairs though and every time John went up the stairs Marley would follow him even if he was only going to get a drink of coffee. John quite his job at the gardening magazine and got a new job at the Philadelphia inquirer, they didn't have to move again because it was only 45 minutes away.
It is now summer and Jenny took the kids to visit her sister in Boston. That meant Marley would be home alone all day. When he was younger this would not have been a problem, but now it was hard for him to control his bladder for long periods of time. john could tell He felt bad about going in the house. John sent Marley to a local kennel. One day when john was at work he got a call that marley was not doing well at all and they might have to put him to sleep. His stomach had flipped and there was only a 1% chance that he would make it without surgery, and that it could flip again. As the weeks passed marley was getting a lot better, but john knew he did not have long before something like this would happen again. Something did happen but it was not the last thing. Marley fell down the stairs nothing was broken and he seemed fine, but then later that night he could hardly move and john thought this was the end, but he was wrong. The next morning marley was feeling a lot better.

Marley is having more and more problems with his health, i think it is very hard for john and the rest of the family to deal with. he has been with them for so long the thought of loosing him is unbearable.