Saying Goodbye to My Best Friend of 13 Years

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sasquatch

Lifer
Jul 16, 2012
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Ouch, yeah that's awful hard. We put a couple dogs down a few years back, and I never really did get over it. I thought I had, but after a year or so I started volunteering at the local shelter and realized how much I had missed having a big fuzzy friend. Glad I took the time I took, but the house (and heart) sure feels empty.
 

pantsBoots

Lifer
Jul 21, 2020
2,132
7,517
Terra Firma
Had to put down our 15 year old Husky Mix, Moonshine today. Finally he gave up and was refusing food, couldn’t use his back legs hardly at all. Even so, one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done.

Just posting up a rememberance thread.... we had some great times hiking ?.. brought him to Colorado twice and all over the Midwest. Such a goofy and loving soul. He loved to go-go-go until the final couple years. We miss you and love you buddy boy.
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Soooo sorry to read this. We're having similar issues with our dog, Cricket.

Time for a new dog after the wound stops smarting?
 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,210
60,433
BROBS, what a beautiful dog Moonshine was, and what a fine picture of him commanding the landscape. Animals do have a wonderful bearing when they are elderly but still somewhat well. I posted a year ago when the little female cat my wife bought down from Long Island passed on in my arms, after a short announcement. These are powerful beings, and it is honor to share their lives and times. My boyhood dog George who died about sixty years ago still wanders through my consciousness full of energy and fire. Their lives end, but they don't go away.
 

pantsBoots

Lifer
Jul 21, 2020
2,132
7,517
Terra Firma
Haha it can be. I try to keep it picked up.
We live in a decent neighborhood so I’m trying not to look like “that guy”. ?
I have a 350 lbs harmless sex offender living across the street and an Air B&B next door. It takes more than dog poop to be "that guy" in my hood. I just kind of mow it all in. Crap. Maybe I am "that guy."
 
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cossackjack

Lifer
Oct 31, 2014
1,052
647
Evergreen, Colorado
The Rainbow Bridge

Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor. Those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent. His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
 
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