Sorry for your loss, Peter and Alis. Me and my wife have a mini-daschund, Lola, four years old and, as Graham said, she is a member of our family and we love her as such. She's more, much more than a pet for us, she's the daughter we never had.
You, Peter, put it all in a very simple but beautiful sentence: "the destination was unimportant, to travel was the thing". Well, amigo, she started this travel way ahead of you and rest assure that she have found a good spot to wait for you and Alis. And I'm sure she'll be wagging her tail until the three of you meet again.
