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149 messages, Last post on Oct 24, 2008 at 9:08 AM
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Replying to: ateixeira (Oct 20, 2008 10:44 am) I fear that I will be dealing with the same situation in the not too distant future. My black lab Flash is about 13 now and is really starting to show his age... heart murmur is getting steadily worse, his hearing and eyesight are going and you can tell the joints are starting to hurt. In the meantime, I try every day to make sure he knows how much he is loved. -Frank
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Replying to: p0926 (Oct 20, 2008 3:50 pm) I'm trying to remember him as a puppy, those were happy days! When we adopted him he had so much energy - he could jump over a 4 foot fence and escape our yard if something was interesting enough. I trained him to jump through a hula-hoop, a pretty neat trick. I told my 6 year old son and first thing he said was "Can we get a pet Lizard?".  My daughter took it pretty hard. She cried and almost regurgitated. It was pretty bad. We comforted her, but she was sad that she did not get to say good bye. She had a neat idea - to get a balloon and put a note on it for him. I got one of those mylar (sp?) balloons with "We'll Miss You" on it, and then each child wrote a small note and we tied it to the string. We let it go and watched it float away to the heavens. It was sad but I think it gave them closure. Sure enough, the balloon floated way up in to the sky until it disappeared in the clouds. The dogs had been blessed, ironically the same day our daughter was baptized. We told her about that. I think that was an important step for her. For all of us. Even though she was sad I thought she demonstrated a maturity well beyond her 9 years. 
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Replying to: ateixeira (Oct 21, 2008 7:38 am) A dog's years sure do seem to fly by. Just the other day we had a visitor who met Flash and commented that he didn't look much like a Flash. However when Flash was younger, he LOVED to run and truely lived up to his name. -Frank |
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So sorry to hear about your dog's passing. I recently had to put down the first dog I've ever owned. It was tough to do, but necessary. Not that his passing leaves us pet-less. We still have one dog (Lily - a mini dachshund) and three cats. And ... a new puppy is on order from a breeder. Another mini doxie ... pictures can be found at this website: Picutres of our new puppy .. he is male #1 |
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Replying to: michaell (Oct 21, 2008 11:04 am) That's OK, I sort of want to mourn his loss. I'll get another pet later in life, not right away.
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Replying to: ateixeira (Oct 22, 2008 12:00 pm) Dogs can really cramp your lifestyle but they are full of so much love and joy that it's worth it. I think that having a young a vibrant dog in the house helped a lot in enabling my wife get over the loss of her dog. We always had at least one dog growing up so dogs were definitely an important part of my childhood and provided many fond memories. -Frank
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