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We love our pets!
pwhodges:
Losing a dog is hard. You have another, which helps, but you won't forget the old one.
I've lost five dogs in their time (and some cats); I currently have two dogs of different ages, but still think of the others (mainly of one and sometimes another, I will admit). Five of these are celebrated in my avatar selection:
Gilda (RIP):
Jenny (RIP):
Lucy (RIP):
Polly:
Penny:
Lucy died at about the same age as yours is - here is my last picture of her, under my desk:
doombilly:
Maria and Goldie
Zingoleb:
I was hit really hard at the fact that I don't have my pets anymore. Before they were only a couple days away if I really needed to see them, and now they're thousands of miles away, and I know my beautiful dalmatian will probably be gone before I see him again. I miss them like crazy.
I want to say 'my condolences' Carl, but that feels too impersonal. I'm so sorry.
Carl-E:
Thanks, Zingo, and everyone else. I just carried him outside to pee again - he still weighs about 95 lbs, and after carrying him around the vet (car to the exam room, exam room to x-ray, back to the exam room, back out to the car, into the house again) I'm bushed. And sore. He stands for a few when I set him on his feet, and takes a few staggering steps, sniffing the cold air. He's always been a cold weather dog, happiest whenever it was snowing. When I bring him in, he collapses.
My wife's birthday dinner became a de facto wake. Most of our good friends came by to spend a little time with him, petting and talking with him (OK, at him. But he's always been very expressive).
I plan on getting plastered after he's gone. The owner, employees and regulars at the bar across the street all know him, he's barked at them all in his high tenor voice, and several of them would come over to pet him regularly. They'll understand. Even our postman got to know him (they're a wary breed, those postmen).
He's a real neighborhood dog.
doombilly:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 21 Nov 2011, 16:02 ---Losing a dog is hard. You have another, which helps, but you won't forget the old one.
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