I feel deep sorrow at your loss.

The chukchi, who bred the chukchi dog, later known as the Siberian Husky, had a saying. How you treat your dogs here determines your status in the afterlife. If you were good, the dogs who passed on before you wait to pull your sled to heaven.

And he will be waiting for you. You have done well and you have done the hardest thing, all for his well-being. His reward at the Bridge is great, as will be yours when you see him there, much later.