Anna Paquin Instagram – 💔 I really can’t word it any better than Stevo did. 💔 Posted @withregram • @stephenmoyer On Friday our beautiful Banjo passed over to the other side. Wherever that is, whatever that is, it was mercifully gentle and he was surrounded by all of his loved people & of course, Dave. Over the past few weeks he has been slowly leaving us; we would walk a few steps and then he would lay down. Like in this pic from a walk last week. I would lift him, he would walk a few steps, then slowly drop to the floor & try to sleep again. It’s hard to describe the odd ball that Banjo was. He asked for nothing. From the outset. He always had his back turned to the wild world. He would seek out the nooks and crannies of a room and hide under tables and desks. He was rescued from a Puppy Mill back in 2009. I always wondered what had happened to him back then. When I saw him that first time at the adoption drive, all the other dogs were yapping and jumping up demanding to be adopted, but Banj was in the corner in a little heap with his body turned away and asleep. Tiny little rag doll. When I went over to look him in the eye he barely looked up at me – we were told he was part Louisiana Catahoula leopard dog. (Look it up – its’a thing) he was like a Dingo from the front with a greyhounds back legs and a leopards spots. One boss eye which meant you never quite knew if he was quite looking at you. There would be differences of opinion about the origin of his name, me romanticizing that we called him Banjo because he kinda looked like the genius Banjo player in Deliverance but the true story being that Anna loved the song ‘Old Susanna’ which has the lyric ‘Oh, I come from Alabama With my banjo on my knee I’m going to Louisiana My true love for to see’ It felt perfect somehow that he was our true love and he had found us. Our Louisiana lad. He was such a good good boy. So loved. So odd. And will be so so missed. Thanks so much to the extremely kind technicians & doctor at Bond Vet Manhattan. They took our whole family, & FaceTime student & Dave. 💜 @daveandbanj