Sorry to hear that, clip. Beautiful fella.
[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
i know how you feel OP.
when i was about 7 years old, i was playing outside when i watched the neighbors cat eat my favorite lego character. i then went inside and got my mom’s marble rolling pin and ending up hitting the cat, breaking it’s back. i then brought the cat over to my neighbor’s house, crying and telling them i’d watched their cat get run over by a car. hoping they could save it, they ended up bringing it to the vet. when the cat died there, and the vet couldnt understand how it’s injuries resulted from a car, they autopsied it, finding my lego guy in there.
busted.[/quote]
ah yah big palooka
We know you cried at the end of Old Yeller
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
Losing pets can be devastating - doesn’t matter that they’re not human, they’re a companion and a member of the family.
I’m sorry to hear about your shepherd, Clip - what a beautiful dog he was.
Also very sorry to hear about Simon, OG. Tuxedo cats are pure win.
The one thing I say to people when they lose a pet is that they might have lost a much-treasured companion, but that animal had a great life that they might not have otherwise had if they’d wound up with someone else (or even homeless, in the case of rescues).[/quote]
Thank you.
My work each year funds the training of a therapy dog that goes to hospitals. It is amazing how much joy animals bring to people, especially those in the hospital or in need.
I had to put my GSP down a few years ago. I was not prepared for it and was a wreck for days afterward. It hit me the hardest in my family seeing I spent the most time with her and she was my dog. Wish I could get another pointer but it dosen’t feel right for some reason.
When I agreed to put her down I asked if it was possible to get her ashes and they said okay we’ll call you in a week or so when they will be ready. Week later they call so my wife and I go to pick them up, still in a poopy mood I might add. At the counter they hand them over in a very tastefull cedar box. Then I get the bill which I agreed to in a frenzy the week before,$265!WTF for a box! what was I thinking lol. My wife had the same expression on her face. We both started to giggle and it was like a weight was lifted off us lol. Sounds weird I know it helped the healing process.
OP, I hope you have a moment of your own soon to help heal up.
I buried my dog two weeks ago - a rescue mongrel from a shelter. I’ve had her since I was 6 and she was a puppy that got thrown off the motorway in a sack. That dog got me through school. I’m still a wreck.
[quote]clip11 wrote:
This is a youtube video my sister made in memory of Gabe…[/quote]
Such a beautiful dog!
Sorry about your loss.
[quote]Nards wrote:
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man. ~Maurice Maeterlinck
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s. ~Mark Twain
That’s a good one, but this next one is my favorite;
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog”[/quote]
Anyone that loves animals will appreciate this video. I have to admit, it got to me. its probably the most emotional thing i have ever seen, regarding an animal. The lion reunion christian full - YouTube
This thread has me all choked up.
We almost had to put our family dog down about a year ago - the thought of it itself had me crying with no end in sight.
On a happier note, he lived. Also, I want a lion that will give me hugs.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
i know how you feel OP.
when i was about 7 years old, i was playing outside when i watched the neighbors cat eat my favorite lego character. i then went inside and got my mom’s marble rolling pin and ending up hitting the cat, breaking it’s back. i then brought the cat over to my neighbor’s house, crying and telling them i’d watched their cat get run over by a car. hoping they could save it, they ended up bringing it to the vet. when the cat died there, and the vet couldnt understand how it’s injuries resulted from a car, they autopsied it, finding my lego guy in there.
busted.[/quote]
Dis was splendid!
I have a cat death story too that involves a trap door, a welding glove and a creek.[/quote]
Now Push (against my instincts) you can’t just lube us up with that interesting image and then claim a headache… go on?
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Bambi wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]HolyMacaroni wrote:
i know how you feel OP.
when i was about 7 years old, i was playing outside when i watched the neighbors cat eat my favorite lego character. i then went inside and got my mom’s marble rolling pin and ending up hitting the cat, breaking it’s back. i then brought the cat over to my neighbor’s house, crying and telling them i’d watched their cat get run over by a car. hoping they could save it, they ended up bringing it to the vet. when the cat died there, and the vet couldnt understand how it’s injuries resulted from a car, they autopsied it, finding my lego guy in there.
busted.[/quote]
Dis was splendid!
I have a cat death story too that involves a trap door, a welding glove and a creek.[/quote]
Now Push (against my instincts) you can’t just lube us up with that interesting image and then claim a headache… go on?[/quote]
Thing is…I may not be as brash as young Mac. Here we have us a thread devoted to honoring the dead and then I come chargin’ in telling a funny (to me) story about me executing a felonious feline? How much trouble would I get myself into?[/quote]
alot, very much trouble as I am the sorrowful person who had to let go of a wonderful feline.
fuck it, can’t you just find some other thread to crow about your stupid stuff?
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
[quote]clip11 wrote:
Thanks…its harder than i thought it’d be.[/quote]
beautiful dog in your avatar[/quote]
I liked the last one better…LOL NO
I lost all of mine and my brother’s chickens and a bantam rooster today. I went to church (which I never do but I was raised Catholic so I go on Easter and Christmas Eve so I don’t have to listen to my grandmother tell me I’m burning in hell for not going to church when I call her on those days.) and when I went to my brother’s afterwards for a nice Easter brunch, the neighbor’s dog had somehow got into the backyard and tore through the chicken wire and into the coop, where he killed all the chickens and the rooster. Egg-laying chickens, I might add. I keep them at my brother’s house because he has way more room than I do. Fresh-laid eggs are a great source of protein, and until you’ve eaten scrambled eggs that the chickens shit out that day, you don’t know what you’re missing. But I digress.
The worst part is that my niece (turns three end of next month) loves running around in the yard with the “chickies” as she calls them, and when I took her into the backyard to let the things loose and let her play with them is when I discovered the carnage. She saw it too and is probably traumatized for the rest of her life by this incident.
So I go over to my brother’s neighbor’s house where they have four or five dogs running around in the yard (he lives in a farming community south of Chico so no one really cares if there are dogs running around as long as they don’t fuck with the orchards) and I know that the black Labrador that their friend had brought over was the culprit. The other dogs were always cool with the chickens and I found a bunch of black dog hair on the coop. The other dogs don’t have any black hair. So I went over and flipped the fuck out and told them that if I ever saw that fucking dog in my brother’s yard again I was going to dig up the chickens and tie the fucking carcasses around the dog’s neck and make him carry them around until they rotted off. That’s what they do with chicken-killing dogs. These fuckers just looked at me like I was from outer space, apologized and then ignored me. I’m going back tonight to burn their house down. I’m fucking pissed about this shit, mostly because my niece is at the age where she can understand full well what happened to her “chickies”.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I lost all of mine and my brother’s chickens and a bantam rooster today. I went to church (which I never do but I was raised Catholic so I go on Easter and Christmas Eve so I don’t have to listen to my grandmother tell me I’m burning in hell for not going to church when I call her on those days.) and when I went to my brother’s afterwards for a nice Easter brunch, the neighbor’s dog had somehow got into the backyard and tore through the chicken wire and into the coop, where he killed all the chickens and the rooster. Egg-laying chickens, I might add. I keep them at my brother’s house because he has way more room than I do. Fresh-laid eggs are a great source of protein, and until you’ve eaten scrambled eggs that the chickens shit out that day, you don’t know what you’re missing. But I digress.
The worst part is that my niece (turns three end of next month) loves running around in the yard with the “chickies” as she calls them, and when I took her into the backyard to let the things loose and let her play with them is when I discovered the carnage. She saw it too and is probably traumatized for the rest of her life by this incident.
So I go over to my brother’s neighbor’s house where they have four or five dogs running around in the yard (he lives in a farming community south of Chico so no one really cares if there are dogs running around as long as they don’t fuck with the orchards) and I know that the black Labrador that their friend had brought over was the culprit. The other dogs were always cool with the chickens and I found a bunch of black dog hair on the coop. The other dogs don’t have any black hair. So I went over and flipped the fuck out and told them that if I ever saw that fucking dog in my brother’s yard again I was going to dig up the chickens and tie the fucking carcasses around the dog’s neck and make him carry them around until they rotted off. That’s what they do with chicken-killing dogs. These fuckers just looked at me like I was from outer space, apologized and then ignored me. I’m going back tonight to burn their house down. I’m fucking pissed about this shit, mostly because my niece is at the age where she can understand full well what happened to her “chickies”.[/quote]
KILL THEM WITH FIRE!