My dog died

[Cloneboy]

:( .

[StandingCow]

That sucks. :(

That is the major reason I don't want a pet, when they die it really sucks.

[BattleWhack]

Sorry man

[Noirceur]

I'm sorry, my first cat died a few years ago. Needless to say, it was not a good experience.

[Discobird]

That sucks :( sorry for your loss. How long had you had him/her?

[Cloneboy]

I had him for about 10 years. He had a good, long life. He always acted like a puppy, and he was full of energy up to the end, when he just collapsed. It was terrible. All I could do was watch him die, and by the time we got him to the pet clinic, he was gone.

[GrosPoisson]

Sorry to hear about that, I know how crappy that is. My dog, a German Shepherd, died a little under a year ago right before I was due to come home for spring break. Thinking it would have messed me up for finals, my parents held off on telling me until I got home. I kind of saw it coming when I got home and she wasn't there as I came through the door wanting me to pet her, or peering inside the house from the door to the backyard, and when I saw that the pad she slept on inside the house was gone. I went and looked out into the backyard to see if there was any sign of her, but after seeing the large carrying cage she slept in whenever we were gone missing, I figured out what had happened.

From what my parents told me, she hadn't been doing so well for almost a month before she died. We all knew she was pretty old, being 11 and a half years old already, but I guess we didn't realize just how old that was. Her joints were already kind of stiff, but she was moving even less than usual. She started sleeping more and more, eating less, and even ignoring her usual favorite foods.

By the time my parents figured something was seriously wrong, it was too late. My dad had to lift her into the car to get her to the vet because she was so weak, and she whimpered a lot when he did pick her up. Her muzzle was all swollen, and she looked terrible. The vet ran some tests, and the news was everything you don't want to hear: she had some kind of tumor around her liver, and what looked like the beginnings of multiple organ failure. The X-ray showed all these growths, as well as blotches the vet said was some kind of noxious gas building up inside of her as a result of the organ failure.

The vet asked if he wanted a second opinion or not, but my dad didn't bother, he could tell it was serious. Instead, he asked him that if he was our dog's owner, what would he do? The vet said he would put the dog to sleep as there was little chance the surgery would do anything, and that's what my dad ended up doing.

I felt like shit for the rest of my spring break, I guess anyone would if they come home to find a longtime pet and companion dead and gone for a week. It still feels weird that I didn't get to say goodbye or anything before she died; on one hand I feel like it's a responsibility as one of her owners that I wasn't around for, and on the other I feel relieved that I never knew what she looked like before she died. I can imagine, but I'll never really know or have any memories of her other than when she was still fine.

Hope you feel better man, it's a hard thing to go through.

[Scraps]

I had him for about 10 years. He had a good, long life. He always acted like a puppy, and he was full of energy up to the end, when he just collapsed. It was terrible. All I could do was watch him die, and by the time we got him to the pet clinic, he was gone.

I just cried reading that :(
+saddness rep.

[Wheat]

I had my neighbor shoot my dog last year because it went into his yard, needless to say I was pissed.

+Rep out of sympathy.

[Shloom]

did you shoot him back?

[Shadow]

Oh man, sorry to hear that. Sounds as though he was a real good friend to you. +rep to you, for having to go through watching your mate die.

[Noirceur]

I had my neighbor shoot my dog last year because it went into his yard, needless to say I was pissed.
Wtf, he shot it just for going into his yard?

[Shadow]

Wtf, he shot it just for going into his yard?

I'll shoot him for breathing my fucking oxygen... goddamn oxygen thief. :gun:

[Noirceur]

If he was attacked or something I would understand but what an asshole to just shoot a dog because it went into his yard.

[Shadow]

If he was attacked or something I would understand but what an asshole to just shoot a dog because it went into his yard.

He's still an oxygen thief.

[Noirceur]

Agreed.

[BlindSite]

If someone shot my dog, I'd cave their fuckin' head in.

[Ramirez]

I had my neighbor shoot my dog last year because it went into his yard, needless to say I was pissed.

+Rep out of sympathy.

What the fuck? What kind of person shoots a dog just like that? :gun:

[Col. Psycho]

I had to bury a dog last year, it was my grandparents dog. It died in its sleep and someone found her under a bush in the garden. It was rather disgusting, (it was only 10am and the flies had already settled in, along with the stench, she must have passed early the previous night, dont know how we didnt notice her missing.) dont know what she died of exactly... But, she was a hardcore dog in her prime. Bulldog cross german shepard (dont ask me) that thing could leap 2m walls and she put 3 other dogs in hospital (one of which was a staffordshire terrier and another was a pitbull cross ridge back).

it didnt bother me much, i was fond of the dog but i didnt mourn when she passed. She was old, at least 10 years old infact. And she was slightly crippled after a car hit her some years back, although her leg was wired up and sorted out, she was in minor discomfort, and i think it just got worse with time. it was better she passed away in the end. :|

[Loké]

(gives sympathetic hug)