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No idea how she made it this long…we lost her brother 3 years ago. She can only see out of one eye, can barely hear but loves her walks every day, even if she doesn’t make it around the block any longer.

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I think I met her at your river pad? Your dogs were amazing and what every dog should be like.

Happy Birthday Bella 🥳
 
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I’ve got a 14 year old mutt with cataracts, and can’t hear. She sure knows what’s happening when i get her leash, and she can find her spot on the couch next to me.

Enjoy every day with your dog.
 
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Well…we made the appointment a couple days ago. We have a vet coming to the house tomorrow to end her suffering. She quit eating and taking her Meds, we think she is telling us she is ready. I do have to give credit to @wash11 , she will eat the ground beef we have been making for her the last 2 weeks. Lol

Randomly tonight she got a burst of energy for about 5 minutes…which makes us wonder if we are making the right choice but she literally slept 20 hours today. We had to put a Ring camera facing the outside of the dog door because we found her stuck half in and out a few weeks ago, she couldn’t get up to get in the house completely.

We feel like it is an end of an era for our family tonight. We lost her brother 3 years ago.

It’s been a good run...

Bo wasn’t able to go to the bathroom this weekend. Thinking he was just backed up, we fed him multiple cans of pumpkin without much results. Our vet had a cancellation this morning at 8, so we were there first thing. Got some x rays and it didn’t look good, mass in his rectum, that spread to...
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We have 2 rescues still but don’t think we will have any other dogs in our future after they go.

It’s been a sad week for us. Thanks for letting me vent.
 
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Totally get knowing the end is near. It definitely never makes it better. Hang in there bud...
 
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Well…we made the appointment a couple days ago. We have a vet coming to the house tomorrow to end her suffering. She quit eating and taking her Meds, we think she is telling us she is ready. I do have to give credit to @wash11 , she will eat the ground beef we have been making for her the last 2 weeks. Lol

Randomly tonight she got a burst of energy for about 5 minutes…which makes us wonder if we are making the right choice but she literally slept 20 hours today. We had to put a Ring camera facing the outside of the dog door because we found her stuck half in and out a few weeks ago, she couldn’t get up to get in the house completely.

We feel like it is an end of an era for our family tonight. We lost her brother 3 years ago.

It’s been a good run...

Bo wasn’t able to go to the bathroom this weekend. Thinking he was just backed up, we fed him multiple cans of pumpkin without much results. Our vet had a cancellation this morning at 8, so we were there first thing. Got some x rays and it didn’t look good, mass in his rectum, that spread to...
www.riverdavesplace.com www.riverdavesplace.com

We have 2 rescues still but don’t think we will have any other dogs in our future after they go.

It’s been a sad week for us. Thanks for letting me vent.
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Know the feeling well. Roxy made it past 16 years as well. Its a very personal decision and of course you want your pup around. You are doing whats right for Bella and she knows that.
 
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The Journey


By Crystal Ward Kent

Copyright 1998, All Rights Reserved


When you bring a pet into your life, you begin a journey — a journey that will bring you more love and devotion than you have ever known, yet also test your strength and courage.


If you allow, the journey will teach you many things, about life, about yourself, and most of all, about love. You will come away changed forever, for one soul cannot touch another without leaving its mark.


Along the way, you will learn much about savoring life’s simple pleasures — jumping in leaves, snoozing in the sun, the joy of puddles, and even the satisfaction of a good scratch behind the ears.


If you spend much time outside, you will be taught how to truly experience every element, for no rock, leaf or log will go unexamined, no rustling bush will be overlooked, and even the very air will be inhaled, pondered, and noted as being full of valuable information. Your pace may be slower — except when heading home to the food dish — but you will become a better naturalist, having been taught by an expert in the field.


Too many times we hike on automatic pilot, our goal being to complete the trail rather than enjoy the journey. We miss the details — the colorful mushrooms on the rotting log, the honeycomb in the old maple snag, the hawk feather caught on a twig. Once we walk as a dog does, we discover a whole new world. We stop; we browse the landscape; we kick over leaves, peek in tree holes, look up, down, all around. And we learn what any dog knows: that nature has created a marvelously complex world that is full of surprises, that each cycle of the seasons brings ever-changing wonders, each day an essence all its own.


Even from indoors you will find yourself more attuned to the world around you. You will find yourself watching summer insects collecting on a screen (How bizarre they are! How many kinds there are!), or noting the flicker and flash of fireflies through the dark. You will stop to observe the swirling dance of windblown leaves, or sniff the air after a rain. It does not matter that there is no objective in this; the point is in the doing, in not letting life’s most important details slip by.


You will find yourself doing silly things that your pet-less friends might not understand: spending thirty minutes in the grocery aisle looking for the cat food brand your feline must have, buying dog birthday treats, or driving around the block an extra time because your pet enjoys the ride. You will roll in the snow, wrestle with chewie toys, bounce little rubber balls till your eyes cross, and even run around the house trailing your bathrobe tie — with a cat in hot pursuit — all in the name of love.


Your house will become muddier and hairier. You will wear less dark clothing and buy more lint rollers. You may find dog biscuits in your pocket or purse, and feel the need to explain that an old plastic shopping bag adorns your living room rug because your cat loves the crinkly sound.


You will learn the true measure of love — the steadfast, undying kind that says, “It doesn’t matter where we are or what we do, or how life treats us as long as we are together.” Respect this always. It is the most precious gift any living soul can give another. You will not find it often among the human race.


And you will learn humility. The look in my dog’s eyes often made me feel ashamed. Such joy and love at my presence. She saw not some flawed human who could be cross and stubborn, moody or rude, but only her wonderful companion. Or maybe she saw those things and dismissed them as mere human foibles, not worth considering, and so chose to love me anyway.


If you pay attention and learn well, when the journey is done, you will not be just a better person, but the person your pet always knew you to be — the one they were proud to call beloved friend.


I must caution you that this journey is not without pain. Like all paths of true love, the pain is part of loving. For as surely as the sun sets, one day your dear animal companion will follow a path you cannot yet go down. And you will have to find the strength and love to let them go. A pet’s time on earth is far too short — especially for those that love them. We borrow them, really, just for awhile, and during those brief years they are generous enough to give us all of their love — every inch of their spirit and heart, until one day there is nothing left.


The cat that only yesterday was a kitten is all too soon old and frail and sleeping in the sun. The young pup of boundless energy wakes up stiff and lame, the muzzle now gray. Deep down we somehow always knew this journey would end. We knew that if we gave our hearts they would be broken. But give them we must for it is all they ask in return. When the time comes, and the road curves ahead to a place we cannot see, we give one final gift and let them run on ahead — young and whole once more.


“Godspeed, good friend,” we say, until our journey comes full circle and our paths cross again.
 
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I hate reading these kind of posts. It’s amazing to me that when the end of life is near, we can humanely put of beloved pets down and end their suffering, but our human loved ones have to suffer through the end. Worse thing ever was watching my wife go through what she did at the end. I have my last three dogs cremains along with my wife’s and when I go, the family knows to put those with me so we can all be together again. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
 
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