[ot]had to put my dog down today

Sorry for your Loss

I feel especially sad for you right now because sleeping at my feet is my best friend Misha of 11 years who was diagnosed with cancer about 4 months ago.

Her time will soon come...but for now she is doing OK and seems to be relatively pain free. It hurts us to have to make a decision like this but at least we are able to give them thier dignity when thier time comes (ironically people can't do that for each other)...I have faith that she'll let me know when she's ready to go and I'll be able to give her one last gift,...to be free of her pain. Luckilly, I found someone who'll actually come to the house and do it becasue she hates the car and the vet.

Buddy will always be with you especially when you need him, I had wonderful dreams about my childhood friend Whiskers at a particularly stressful time in my life....it's like she knew I needed an unconditional friend then. We played in the stream behind the house I grew up in like we did when we were young....I think she was giving me a gift then.

Sorrry for your loss KF,
 

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I'm so sorry. Dogs give us so much, and yet their lives pass so quickly. It's terribly hard to let go. But you did the right thing. It was the last gift you could give him, to make the pain stop.

Spend time thinking about all the fun you had together. While you remember him, he will always live.
 

:( :( :( :( I'm so sorry to hear that... no matter how much you know it was right and even necessary, it sucks to have to do that.

My pug is seven, and I dread the day when her time comes... just thinking about it makes me tear up.

I'm so sorry for your loss.
 

Thanks everybody for your help.

I'm attaching a pic of Buddy, taken about a month before he died. The changes in him over that one month were very dramatic, and he looked a lot worse than he does in this pic:
 

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My deepest sympathies. :(


"Ode to a Dog"
The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us, may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads.

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only be may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings, and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.

If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death.

-Sen. George Vest of Missouri (1830-1904).

As a civil attorney. Represeting a man who's dog had been wrongly shot. The above is his closing argument (he won the case).
 

Sorrow. Seems that everyone is a little scared of the time when their own animal can't go on, and I'm no exception, worsened by the fact I've already had one pet put down years ago so I know what it's like. You have my sympathy.
 

I'm sorry to hear that, KF. I had to put my cat to sleep last November. Putting our pets to sleep is one of the hardest things for a pet owner to do, but it's worth it to have the love and companionship.
 


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