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« Reply #315 on: February 22, 2016, 03:50:07 PM »
Very sorry to hear about Hershe, Chad. I'll raise my glass to her tonight.
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« Reply #316 on: February 22, 2016, 04:16:43 PM »
Sorry to hear Chad :( Hope you and the fam are doing okay.

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« Reply #317 on: February 27, 2016, 06:05:40 AM »
Thank you all for the support and kind words.  We put her down on Monday.  jingle.son goes to school about 30 minutes from the house, so he gets a ride everyday - Monday he sat in the back seat with the dogs and cried the whole way there  :'(.  When we were at the vet, Hershe gave me a look that said "it's ok" and "thank you" all at once.  I could tell she was ready to go.

Last weekend, we took one fanal trek through the forest across the street from us, and got this picture.  jingle.son did the extra digitization.



There is a bridge connecting Heaven and Earth.
It is called the Rainbow Bridge because of all its beautiful colors.
Just this side of the Rainbow Bridge there is a land of meadows,
hills and valleys with lush green grass.
When a beloved pet dies, the pet goes to this place.
There is always food and water and warm spring weather.
The old and frail animals are young again.
Those who were sick, hurt or in pain are made whole again.
There is only one thing missing,
they are not with their special person who loved them so much on earth.
So each day they run and play until the day comes
when one suddenly stops playing and looks up!
The nose twitches! The ears are up!
The eyes are staring and this one runs from the group!
You have been seen and when you and your special friend meet,
you take him in your arms and hug him.
He licks and kisses your face again and again -
and you look once more into the eyes of your best friend and trusting
pet.
Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together never again to be apart.
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« Reply #318 on: February 27, 2016, 07:48:19 AM »
That's rough, man. Not sure what else to say.  :( :(

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« Reply #319 on: February 27, 2016, 05:33:23 PM »
Very sorry to hear about your loss, Chad.  I love the Rainbow Bridge poem... hang tough Brother.

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« Reply #320 on: February 28, 2016, 10:51:18 PM »
Just saw this.  I'm sorry for your loss Chad  :'(
     

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« Reply #321 on: March 01, 2016, 06:44:49 AM »
I am so sorry about your dog. That is a beautiful picture.




My Olliver, aka, Ollie. I love Dachshunds. 3 of my favorite pics of him. 1st one is when he stole some corn. 2nd one is he and my cat, Leona. (I love both dogs and cats btw). Last one he's like looking at me saying: WOT U WANT M8?


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« Reply #322 on: March 05, 2016, 10:43:41 PM »
We got a puppy today! Foster is an Australian Shepherd who is 10 weeks old, and from a breeder in Iowa. She looks so much like Max, that it truly filled a void. I miss Max like crazy, but she has a lot of mannerisms that he had and like I said, looks so much alike.





Cheesy, I know, but I think it's beautiful in a way. Max gets to meet her.


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« Reply #323 on: March 05, 2016, 11:34:29 PM »
Beautiful puppy!   :heart

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« Reply #324 on: March 10, 2016, 07:07:24 AM »
These are my doggies. They're actually twins.



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« Reply #325 on: March 10, 2016, 07:09:18 AM »
Right click the image itself and click "Open in new tab" then copy the url and paste in there. Make sure it ends with .jpg. ;)
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« Reply #326 on: March 10, 2016, 07:16:15 AM »
Phew. Thanks. Finally I made it.

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« Reply #327 on: March 10, 2016, 07:20:27 AM »
Adorable.

Here are some newer ones of my pooch:


And with Bear, after opening presents:
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« Reply #328 on: March 10, 2016, 07:27:05 AM »
Now, that's a real dog. A sweet one, too.

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« Reply #329 on: March 10, 2016, 07:28:11 AM »
He's the best. 106lbs of love (and muscle).
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« Reply #330 on: March 10, 2016, 08:22:21 AM »
What a sweetie, Hyperplex. Looks like a thicker version of my Sagan.

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« Reply #331 on: March 13, 2016, 07:25:31 PM »
Foster found Max's old soccer ball in the yard the other day. Right where he left it in October. She loved it

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« Reply #332 on: April 08, 2016, 08:24:55 AM »
Wait is that a Bernese Mountain Dog because the colors on her face looks the same but I don't think i've seen white legs though. Really cute though and speaking of, i'm guarding this furry thing this weekend:


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« Reply #333 on: September 14, 2017, 08:32:52 AM »
Norman being a goof ball next to his aunt Koda. Sadly, at nearly 15 years of age, Koda was put down last night. She was put to sleep on her bed while stuffing her face full of steak and cheese, surrounded by most of her family. Victoria got Koda as a present for her 13th birthday. She's holding it together pretty well. There were talks of putting her down when V and I first met 4 years ago, so she's just happy she got to make it this long.


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« Reply #334 on: September 14, 2017, 10:17:48 AM »
brohug for you Brian.  I know that hurt and sorrow.
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« Reply #335 on: September 14, 2017, 12:32:29 PM »
Chino, sorry to hear of your loss. A question for you and jingle -  When your dog passed away, did you cremate and keep the ashes or something else?

We are facing the same in the near future.  We took our 14 year old mixed breed to the vet and basically she is old with decreased liver and kidney function.  She will not stay still and sounds like a dog with emphysema after very little walking and up the stairs.  They gave us some pills for pain to help the joints.  Thankfully the pill for pain is fruity and she gobbles it up and the joint pill looks like a rolo candy and smells like meat.

This is going to be tough as this will be our first natural death for a pet.
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« Reply #336 on: September 14, 2017, 01:23:57 PM »
Chino, sorry to hear of your loss. A question for you and jingle -  When your dog passed away, did you cremate and keep the ashes or something else?

Yes, we did.
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« Reply #337 on: September 14, 2017, 04:21:23 PM »
Damn Brian. I'm sorry.


I forgot this thread was a thing.

We got a puppy a few months ago. Gidget. She is a rescue from our local shelter.  She was found at about a month old on the side of the road, emaciated and coated in fleas. The vet at the shelter said she didn't think she was going to make it.

Now she's about 6 months old, and rambunctious as hell.

We still aren't sure what she is. Chihuahua /  Yorkie /  ? mix.





 
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« Reply #338 on: April 23, 2018, 03:30:17 PM »
Welp, this weekend was pretty terrible, especially for my mom. Our first family dog had to be put down last Friday.

We got Mia when I was still a junior in high school (2005) and about a year ago she got diagnosed with an enlarged heart. A few months ago she started breathing heavily and the doc said she was getting fluid in her lungs. She got a medication to help it and it seemed to hold her over for a while. Last week she started breathing very short breaths at a fast pace, so my folks brought her to the animal hospital. They had her in a glass box pumped full of oxygen for three days. She was only supposed to be in there one night and the doctor was confident that she was going to be okay.

My dad called me at work Friday morning and said they were advised to put her down. I dropped everything and left the office. She died surrounded by my parents, my sister, and I, all failing miserably to keep it together. I was hurting more for my mom than anything, but I was still a mess inside. That pooch followed her everywhere, and when my sister and I were in college, and my dad would go away on business (usually once a month), Mia is all my mom had for several days at a time. They were really close and my mom completely lost it once they doctor declared her dead.

I hated how the whole thing went down. The poor girl had to spend her last three days in a noisy box in an ICU room where the lights never turned off. She was surrounded by strangers and was unable to sleep for 3 days because she couldn't lay down and breath at the same time. And after having to put her down in some dingy x-ray room, the only way out of the building was through the lobby. I wish there was a side door so my mom (and family) didn't have to walk through a waiting room full of people sitting next to their happy spirited, still living dogs. At least my mom was able to bring her bed and two favorite toys that she's had since she was a puppy, and she took her last breaths tucked under her favorite blanket.

Chihuahuas catch a lot of flack for their attitudes and barkiness, and sure, Mia was a total cunt when it came to vacuum cleaners and contractors, but she was still a good dog and she brought my mom more smiles in 13 years than I probably have in my 29. I'm going to miss seeing her every Wednesday night when I visit my folks. 

Rest easy, pooch.


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« Reply #339 on: April 23, 2018, 03:57:07 PM »
Sorry to hear that, Chino. That's tough.

Here are some pictures of my pup, Mulder, who became a part of the family early last year.



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« Reply #340 on: April 23, 2018, 04:48:17 PM »
My condolences, Chino.

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« Reply #341 on: April 23, 2018, 08:50:46 PM »
:brohug: to you Brian.  We've had to say goodbye to two family pets in the last 3 years, and it's never easy.  I feel for the Chino family.

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« Reply #342 on: April 24, 2018, 04:58:23 AM »
I'm really sorry to hear that Chino, my condolences to you and your family.

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« Reply #343 on: April 24, 2018, 10:06:53 AM »
Dang Brian.....sorry to hear that. It's a tough loss to take I know.
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« Reply #344 on: April 26, 2018, 12:53:41 PM »
My son captured a good pic of Lucy the other day.....



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« Reply #345 on: April 26, 2018, 01:24:52 PM »
Lucy looks like a butch.
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« Reply #346 on: April 26, 2018, 01:33:19 PM »
Lucy looks like a butch.

She is. She's in a family of (4) men
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« Reply #347 on: May 27, 2018, 03:24:29 PM »
So, nine-years old and Sagan is a bigger baby about thunderstorms than ever. We're having a lovely little spring cloud burst outside and he's practically crawled into my lap as I type this. It wouldn't be so bad if he didn't weigh 70 lbs.
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« Reply #348 on: November 15, 2018, 04:34:21 PM »
Oh how I’ve dreaded writing a post in this thread… it’s time though.

My wife and I said goodbye to our 13-YR Old Husky Maya this morning; she passed peacefully in our arms without fear or trembling.  Our Vet, who is a high school friend of mine, helped us through it.  To honor her, I’d like to tell you her story.

On May 9th 2009, after a freak tornado came through our little corner of Virginia, why wife picked up our angel from the Siberian Husky Assist in Bristol TN, as I was home cleaning up debris from the storm.  Neither one of us had any idea what an exceptional little girl she was… and how she would change our lives.  My wife and I have no wish for children (if the Lord wants us to have children we will if my wife catches, but we are not trying), so Maya became our little girl. 

The Siberian Husky Assist rescued Maya from a kill shelter in a neighboring county about a week before we adopted her; on her last day in the kill shelter, a compassionate person called the Assist and saved her life.  She was found in Tazewell County VA wandering in and out of a farmer’s chicken coop, taking only one chicken a day (or so the farmer said); animal control came to get her thinking that there would be a problem with this animal because she had acquired a taste for blood.  Animal Control saw her, pulled to the side of a country road, opened the back of the truck to get ready for her and when the officer turned to get the collar to apprehend her, she had jumped in the back of the truck!  She was ready to go!

She came to us, speaking on command, sitting on command, heeling on command, house-trained, and full of love.  She gave us everything she had, and we gave her everything we had.

The first 4 years were filled with normal life and dog activities; hiking, running in the rain, killing skunks (two skunks in two years at 2 AM… my wife and I washing her in the dead of night), coming inside (she was inside/outside) and loving on us, talking to us when we got home from work and telling us about her day (she whoo whooed at us) etc.  She was the perfect angel.  She helped me immensely through the passing of my father in 2012 from sudden and very rare cancer… she would come to me in our basement while I was crying and lay her head on my chest, she would paw me and lick my tears from my face.  I loved her so much.

In 2013, before I left the US for the Middle East, she tore her ACL in a fall from our deck; she hobbled around for two weeks (wagging her tail the whole time according to my wife) until I got back and we had it repaired.  Other than keeping my wife up two straight nights because of the narcotic she was on, she was good as new!  Her long hike days were over, but we still piled in the car and went to our local state park (Hungry Mother) for walks.

In 2015 the strange behavior started.  She began eating my socks (one-throating them as Joe Gatto says) and being very restless at night seeming like she couldn’t be still; this went on for about a year and then she ate one of my longer basketball socks and it lodged whole in her stomach and began to enter her colon (which can quickly be fatal).  My Vet (same as above) got us a rush appointment at Virginia Tech and the sock was removed via endoscopy (non-surgical) and she was good as new… though the restless behavior stayed.  In 2017 she ate a towel that I had sat on the top of her house (a full-size bath towel) and we one again rushed her to VT and they once again saved her life.  The Vet at VT mentioned to me that she may have Cushings Disease because, along with the odd appetite, she was beginning to quickly lose her coat around her neck and belly.  By the time we had the complete and accurate Cushing’s diagnosis and began treating her, she had become bald around her neck, on her belly, and on her tail (which was extremely sad).  At this point, my wife and I began to resign ourselves to losing her because the treatment for Cushing’s is in some cases worse than the disease itself (loss of mobility leading to lameness in an animal that already had arthritis from the ACL tear in one leg and the buck-shot lodged in her other rear leg)… but in Maya’s case (after a scare with the meds in which she very nearly died), the treatment not only worked, but she lost the restlessness, her appetite normalized, and of all things, she gained her full double coat back (though the fur was now gray and white instead of jet black).  Four times… four times her life was saved and she was given back to us when we thought we were going to lose her; when she grew her hair back, we had our little girl back!

Through all of this, she never lost her loving attitude toward us and remained as playful as she had ever been… she still acted like a puppy and still thought she was a puppy.  Until November 1st… two weeks ago today.

That night, she vomited water in the floor of our living room and became extremely lethargic.  We began brushing her out (as she was blowing her coat; double coated) and I noticed that I could feel her spine and ribs.  We took her to the Vet on Monday of this week because she was starting to refuse her bacon and denta-sticks (which she would very quickly demand if she didn’t receive them promptly) and I knew that something was very wrong.  She was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney failure on Monday… we didn’t know because she was still eating like a horse (up until that day) and her functions were just fine.  My Vet told us that all we could do at this point was change her food and make her comfortable… stage 4 is hard to come back from and she could dive down-hill very quickly.  On Tuesday night, she came inside, laid at the foot of our couch and tried to say goodbye to us.  She talked softly and kissed us both, we laid with her and stroked her fur until she fell asleep.  On Wednesday morning she began trembling violently and wouldn’t eat or drink; she came to my wife and I outside let us pet her gently and turned to look at us as we left (both crying).

I came home early with the intention of easing her suffering and facing what I had to face, but she had gotten under our deck and wouldn’t come out to me… she started to come out, then looked at me and went back to her spot.  My wife and I prayed hard, talked to her through the deck, and finally got her out last night in freezing drizzle at about 9PM.  We brought her inside and spent last night up all night with her saying goodbye.  By this time, she couldn’t stand for very long without falling or take more than a few steps without stopping, and when she did sleep (only a total of 2-hours spit into to different periods) she began drooling blood.  Through all this, she never made a sound.  Just a few deep sighs when my wife and I were crying over her and our tears fell on her face and coat.

This morning, at 8:30 AM, we let her go; we knew we were doing the right thing and our Vet confirmed it.  We cried over her (the Vet too I think), gave her a sedative so she would relax and fall asleep, spent five minutes crying very hard, then let her go.  So peaceful is my little girl.

I’ll upload a few pictures when I can tomorrow; this screen is blurry and I’ve been up almost 46-hours.  If you read this far, you honored her too and I say thank ya… thank ya big big.
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« Reply #349 on: November 15, 2018, 04:46:30 PM »
Please share her pictures with us when you are able. I'd love to see her.

Love to you and your wife. I'm very sorry for your loss.
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