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Had to put my dog down this morning.

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May 01, 2022, 02:43 PM
PCWyoming
Had to put my dog down this morning.
Sorry for your loss.


PC
May 01, 2022, 02:59 PM
recoatlift
I’m reading my future and the kind & understanding sincere replies, big pain & reality coming up.

Our Maggie is going on that journey tomorrow @11am. She’s 14, we’re going to hold her til the vet tells us to leave. I’m sure the vet has seen & heard a grown man break down, lump in my throat now. Boy, oh boy, hurt city U.S.A.
May 01, 2022, 03:50 PM
bgouker
Sorry for your loss. They don't live long enough.
May 01, 2022, 04:29 PM
Karpteach
I am truly sorry for your loss. Try to remember the love you shared with the pup.
May 01, 2022, 04:43 PM
NMPinNYC
May she rest in heaven and greet you when it's time to be with all our loved ones again...


Best regards,
Nick.

NRA Life Member and Certified Instructor
May 01, 2022, 04:45 PM
NMPinNYC
The House Dog's Grave ( Haig , an English bulldog )

I've changed my ways a little : I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
Except in a kind of dream : and you, if you dream a moment,
You see me there.

So leave awhile the paw-marks on the front door
Where I used to scratch to go out or in,
And you'd soon open; leave on the kitchen floor
The marks of my drinking-pan.

I cannot lie by your fire as I used to do
On the warm stone,
Nor at the foot of your bed; no, all the night through
I lie alone.

But your kind thought has laid me less than six feet
Outside your window where firelight so often plays,
And where you sit to read -- and I fear often grieving for me --
Every night your lamplight lies on my place.

You, man and woman, live so long, it is hard
To think of you ever dying
A little dog would get tired, living so long.
I hope then when you are lying

Under the ground like me your lives will appear
As good and joyful as mine.
No, dear, that's too much hope : you are not so well cared for
As I have been.

And never have know the passionate undivided
Fidelities that I knew.
Your minds are perhaps too active, too many-sided....
But to me you were true.

You were never masters, but friends. I was your friend.
I loved you well, and was loved. Deep love endures
To the end and far past the end. If this is my end,
I am not lonely, I am not afraid, I am still yours.

Robinson Jeffers. 1941.


Best regards,
Nick.

NRA Life Member and Certified Instructor
May 01, 2022, 04:49 PM
nhtagmember
very sorry to hear that - my condolences
May 01, 2022, 05:13 PM
hapevo
I am so sorry....


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May 01, 2022, 05:22 PM
Alyron
So sorry to hear- my thoughts are with you- one of the hardest things we have to do-
May 01, 2022, 06:01 PM
armored
So Sorry.
May 01, 2022, 06:11 PM
Jeff Yarchin
So sorry for your loss, Todd.
May 01, 2022, 06:33 PM
h2oys
Truly sorry for your loss Todd.
May 01, 2022, 08:16 PM
Rey HRH
That's a good decision you made. I can't see making our pets suffer beyond their normal cycle just for us. My dogs are 7 years old now and I do think about that.



"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
May 01, 2022, 08:17 PM
sigarms229
I'm so sorry for your loss.



Sometimes, you gotta roll the hard six
May 01, 2022, 08:49 PM
ersatzknarf
Very sorry for your loss.

Frown






May 01, 2022, 08:58 PM
irreverent
I’ve read the words: “grief is love with nowhere to go” maybe here, maybe somewhere else. It made sense to me.
I’m sorry for your loss.


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May 01, 2022, 09:03 PM
dsiets
Frown
I wish I had the words.
I think only Time can be given. It's not fair.
May 01, 2022, 09:25 PM
Ozarkwoods
Sorry to hear this. My condolences. Losing a faithful companion is always difficult.


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May 01, 2022, 10:35 PM
Spiff_P239
So sorry about your pup. It’s always hard losing our furry friends.
May 01, 2022, 10:39 PM
coloradohunter44
Sorry for your loss. It hurts, I know. Prayers for all.



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