About this episode

Dawn Mimnaugh shares her personal journey of navigating life changes while caring for senior dogs and homeless cats.

Last year, Life With Old Dogs went quiet. Not because the mission changed, but because my life did. In this deeply personal return episode, I share what it was like to navigate divorce, move into a fifth-wheel RV on my newly purchased Pennsylvania farm, rebuild my life from the ground up, and continue caring for senior dogs and homeless cats who still needed me. Incontinence. Medications. Arthritic bodies. And not one of them was surrendered, displaced, or treated as disposable. In a culture ...

People in this episode

Host: Dawn Mimnaugh

Topics covered

• commitment
• personal struggle
• senior dogs
• homeless cats
• life changes
• divorce
• rebuilding life

Keywords

• divorce
• senior dogs
• homeless cats
• life changes
• commitment
• incontinence
• medications
• arthritic bodies

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Places: Pennsylvania

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