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I am so sorry for your pain. I had to put my dog to sleep more than 10 years ago. She was my first baby (before my son was born!). I still cry when I think of her. I did get another dog a few months later and she is lying at my feet right now. I grew to love her even though it took awhile - I didn't want to be hurt again! You are obviously a wonderful person to have loved your dog so much - thank you for taking such good care of him - he was a very lucky dog!
I'm very, very sorry that you lost your pal today. It's the hardest part of love, sigh. Your loss was so sudden that you didn't have time to wrap your mind around it! May comfort find your grieving heart and good memories of your doggy companion lift up your spirit.
Thank you all for your thoughts. Here is something beautiful someone found for me and it's giving me comfort. Perhaps it will do the same for someone else...
If it should be that I grow weak
And pain should keep me from my sleep
Then you must do what must be done
For this last battle cannot be won.
You will be sad, I understand
Don't let your grief then stay your hand
For this day more than all the rest
Your love for me must stand the test.
We've had so many happy years
What is to come can hold no fears
You'd not want me to suffer so
The time has come please let me go.
Take me where my need they'll tend
And please stay with me till the end
Hold me firm and speak to me
Until my eyes no longer see.
I know in time that you will see
The kindness that you did for me
Although my tail, its last has waved
From pain and suffering I've been saved.
Please do not grieve - it must be you
Who had this painful thing to do
We've been so close, we two, these years
Don't let your heart hold back its tears.
I am truly sorry. I sat with my beloved Hannah while she died in my bedroom.....I have no idea what she died from.....had just had a full battery of tests at the vet....all were normal....and altho she was a senior....we expected to have her for more years....but she sickened and then died less than a week later.
The only comfort I found was knowing that her life with me had been good. We found one another at a time when we both needed love and a friend. We were both good at reading one another and being there for one another. I couldnt imagine loosing her.......but she went on ahead, I like to think like when we went hiking, she will be waiting around the next bend in the path to see me come into view.
My philosophy is that life is best not measured in quantity but in quality. If the life has been good.....that is all we can hope for.
I know you will be bereft at the absence of your dear friend. The pain of absence will mellow and become bitter-sweet memories. I still cry (for myself) when I talk about Hannah...but I know she is just fine and she and I both know the love that characterized our relationship doesn't end at death.
I am truly sorry. I sat with my beloved Hannah while she died in my bedroom.....I have no idea what she died from.....had just had a full battery of tests at the vet....all were normal....and altho she was a senior....we expected to have her for more years....but she sickened and then died less than a week later.
The only comfort I found was knowing that her life with me had been good. We found one another at a time when we both needed love and a friend. We were both good at reading one another and being there for one another. I couldnt imagine loosing her.......but she went on ahead, I like to think like when we went hiking, she will be waiting around the next bend in the path to see me come into view.
My philosophy is that life is best not measured in quantity but in quality. If the life has been good.....that is all we can hope for.
I know you will be bereft at the absence of your dear friend. The pain of absence will mellow and become bitter-sweet memories. I still cry (for myself) when I talk about Hannah...but I know she is just fine and she and I both know the love that characterized our relationship doesn't end at death.
Thank you Elston. My heart is just breaking right now. I have no children or family, so my dog was my life. My dog was the ONE thing that brought a smile to me face when nothing else could - nothing.
Thank you Elston. My heart is just breaking right now. I have no children or family, so my dog was my life. My dog was the ONE thing that brought a smile to me face when nothing else could - nothing.
I know tht you are in pain; I hve been there and think I understand the loneliness you are feeling. Everyone feels the loss differently.....but we can imagine one anothers pain. You have many people thinking of you and holding you in their hearts.
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