I think my dog is dying /Edit: she passed away

[thirdeye]

Awww. So sorry to hear

 

[kschaffner]

My cat got ran over this summer. It sucked I know how hard it is to lose a family pet.

 

[Patt]

... my dog sings too ... his favorite to howl along with is The Joker by Steve Miller

 

[Atheus]

We've got an old dog too, he's 11 now, I'll be really gutted when he goes.

 

[kschaffner]

I just remembered that my friends dog died this past summer also she was 26.

 

[Mursilis]

Sorry for the OP's loss. Dogs are great and it's always sad to lose a cherished family pet.

Originally posted by: Doboji
someone shot the dog!!!!! I want to go people hunting after this thread....

I'm so sorry for your loss!... people are so awful....

-Max

In the shooter's defense (if there is one), maybe that person truly felt in fear for their life? She said the dog was a Great Dane, and that's no poodle. I've never known Danes to be an aggressive breed (all the ones I've met have been very friendly), but some people just see a large dog and begin to panic.
I used to work in this law office in which one attorney would bring in his Great Dane every once in a while, and let him wander the offices. That dog was as gentle as a lamb, but huge - his head was over waist high on an adult. One Friday when the dog was in, some maintenance guys came into the office suite to fix a light bulb, and that dog came wandering down the hall to check out the new visitors. They took one look at this small horse coming their way and almost fell over themselves trying to get out of the office! It was comical as all get out. They refused to come back in until the dog was locked away. Some people just aren't comfortable around dogs.
If someone shot the OP's dog just for the (sick) 'fun' of it, then that's disturbing and cruel, and they should definitely be facing charges.

 

[Doboji]

Originally posted by: HotChic

Originally posted by: Doboji
someone shot the dog!!!!! I want to go people hunting after this thread....

I'm so sorry for your loss!... people are so awful....

-Max

We only think that. There's no real way to tell what happened. She could have gotten snagged on a fence or bitten by another dog, but I think the mark is too clean for either of those. In any case, it really didn't have a big effect on her. But yeah, if somebody shot her, they were a jerk.

Well either way I'm sad for you and I didnt even know the dog... They are so loyal and loving, it's just unfair that they live such short lives...

-Max

 

[rhino56]

im sorry about your dog, very sad, of course, but i dont understand this at all. please fill me in on what happened
why when the dog came in injured, you layed her on her bed in the garage and come online and post about it when i know myself i would have been rushing my dog to the nearest hospital clinic whatever freaking out about it. but its like you accepted the fact that she was going to die and you werent even sure what was wrong with her.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: Mursilis
Sorry for the OP's loss. Dogs are great and it's always sad to lose a cherished family pet.

Originally posted by: Doboji
someone shot the dog!!!!! I want to go people hunting after this thread....

I'm so sorry for your loss!... people are so awful....

-Max

In the shooter's defense (if there is one), maybe that person truly felt in fear for their life? She said the dog was a Great Dane, and that's no poodle. I've never known Danes to be an aggressive breed (all the ones I've met have been very friendly), but some people just see a large dog and begin to panic.
I used to work in this law office in which one attorney would bring in his Great Dane every once in a while, and let him wander the offices. That dog was as gentle as a lamb, but huge - his head was over waist high on an adult. One Friday when the dog was in, some maintenance guys came into the office suite to fix a light bulb, and that dog came wandering down the hall to check out the new visitors. They took one look at this small horse coming their way and almost fell over themselves trying to get out of the office! It was comical as all get out. They refused to come back in until the dog was locked away. Some people just aren't comfortable around dogs.
If someone shot the OP's dog just for the (sick) 'fun' of it, then that's disturbing and cruel, and they should definitely be facing charges.

Yeah, I agree. She's a big dog and she shouldn't have been out wandering around. I still can't figure out how she got out in the first place! We checked the gates - locked - and the fences were not dug under. She couldn't have jumped, so I'm at a loss.

 

[Kalmah]

I'm really sorry for your loss.
My 4 year old dog had to be put down recently. We found him as a stray. He had seizures a couple times a month his entire life. Took him to the vet to get heartworm shots last time and he went into a seizure after the shot. He wouldn't come out of it.. for a long long time. The vet had to put him out of his misery.

 

[monk3y]

Very sorry to hear about your loss

 

[KillerAngel]

Originally posted by: kschaffner
I just remembered that my friends dog died this past summer also she was 26.

Errr...in doggie years?

 

[Brutuskend]

So sorry the hear!!



I'm still getting over Brutus' death.

It's never easy....

 

[kschaffner]

Originally posted by: KillerAngel

Originally posted by: kschaffner
I just remembered that my friends dog died this past summer also she was 26.

Errr...in doggie years?

No in human years. She was blind, Deaf, and had arthritis. She was put down at the start of summer. That dog was ancient. Her name was Valley.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

:brokenheart:

I feel your pain, our family just went through this a couple of weeks ago.
Our vet sent us a sympathy card with the following passage which gave me some comfort

Rainbow Bridge

 

[j00fek]

sorry to hear this :brokenheart:

 

[KillerAngel]

Originally posted by: kschaffner

Originally posted by: KillerAngel

Originally posted by: kschaffner
I just remembered that my friends dog died this past summer also she was 26.

Errr...in doggie years?

No in human years. She was blind, Deaf, and had arthritis. She was put down at the start of summer. That dog was ancient. Her name was Valley.

I don't think I've ever heard of any dog living so long. That's amazing.

 

[Thegonagle]

I came to check in on this and now all I can offer is my condolences.

I've lost a couple of dogs, and seen freinds lose theirs. I know that sometimes, they seem to be doing fine one moment, and then they decide one day, on thier own, to just go to sleep one last time. It's always a shock when they turn so suddenly.

Hopefully, she wasn't really shot, and just ran into a fence or something.

Be thankful for the joy she brought while she was there, and know that she loved her family enough to come home for her final rest.

 

[montanafan]

I feel so sad for your loss. Just remember the good times.

 

[Aquaman]

Sorry to hear about your lose

Aquaman

 

[Kadarin]

I hope she had fun on that last adventure she had...

 

[AreaCode707]

Well, she's buried in the backyard now (my parents have about 3 acres), all wrapped up in her bed blankets. I feel so guilty for leaving her outside in the cold night...

 

[KillerAngel]

Originally posted by: HotChic
Well, she's buried in the backyard now (my parents have about 3 acres), all wrapped up in her bed blankets. I feel so guilty for leaving her outside in the cold night...

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Where To Bury A Dog
There are various places within which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub of the garden, is an excellent place to bury a good dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavorous bone, or lifted head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter, and it touches sentiment more than anything else.

For if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps at long and at last. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost -- if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. One place that is best of all.

If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have, he will come to you when you call -- come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they should not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there.

People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing.

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

Ben Hur Lampman

Sorry for your loss.

- M4H

 

[Conky]

That is very sad.

Dogs are indeed our best friends.