Happiness was...

[251am]

 a warm puppy. We had to put our little nine month old pup to sleep on Wednesday. He had acute anemia. Make the time for puppy time every day-lay down on the floor with em and let em lick ya. Laugh and giggle. If you have a problem with your pet check out www.2nd chance sancutary.com run by Ron Hines. Wish we had found it sooner cause our vet didn't help much. :'(

[EX#996]

So sorry to hear about your puppy.   :'(

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Very sorry to hear about your pup. I know it's tough. Know that you gave your pup a great life while here.

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Sorry.  Man, that had to suck.  My dogs are family, so I can imagine how you must feel. :'( :'( :'(
Guess what, though?  There's a slew of cute, fuzzy, happy, loving dogs over at the pound right now, just hoping that somebody will bail them out before they get the green needle.  Turn your pain to joy, and go rescue yourself a new fur child.  Just remember that you can't take them all....

[251am]

Thanks Chris, Jack, and ex 996, it is nice to know that people I have not even formally met yet, care. My wife Tanya found him at a BMW rally down in Kentucky last September. He and his mother had been dumped at the rally site, Tanya went to Wal-Mart and bought a carrier, and brought him home on the back of her 650GS. Porter was our first. It's kind of one of those, " Geez, can we really do this?" things. All that stuff we were concerned about like time for walks and picking up poop. Money for food and vet. Is he gonna poop in the house? We came to love standing in the backyard waiting for him to pee. Getting his dinner ready. Watching him come around the corner after hearing his nails clicking, his tail just a waggin as he sees me in the office. I'd leave the door open on the woodstove in the basement for awhile, and he'd just soak up the heat, standing there gazing at the flames.  The house feels empty. He's not there to watch me make coffee in the morning or talk to about squirells he missed in the backyard. He was family but we didn't realize just how much. Sorry for the off-topic blathering but dogs are universal. We were his more than we knew.        

[secularist]

that really sucks.  

hardest thing I've ever done in my whole life is decide it was time to put one of my cats down...I still get choked up about it.  you gave your pup a great 6 months that he might not have otherwise enjoyed and that's awesome.

I've tried to look at it as we are lucky and the animals are lucky.  your puppy touched your lives and opened you up to new experiences...that's a good thing.  when it's time, you will have another puppy find you guys and rescue you again.

[KBOlsen]

 :'(

Heartfelt condolences from my four-legged family to you and your wife.  We lost both a cat and our dog last year... and I don't think things will ever be quite the same.  But I do know that our lives are infinitely richer for having had our hearts touched by the unconditional love of our animals.

[dylanfan53]

Sorry to hear about this.  It took about a year and a half before I even considered another dog after my Irish Setter died in my arms of old age one night.  Actually I'd decided not to get another dog until someone showed my wife and me a picture of a new litter and that was that.   Now I have a five month old shadow in the form of a lab puppy and I don't know why I ever hesitated.

Point is, don't be afraid to go at it again.  If you were raising a good dog before, you know what you're doing and that increases the odds that you'll have another good companion.  Best wishes.

[spyderchick]

Roger's folks lost a 5 month old pup due to diabetes 2 years ago. Losing a young animal sux.  :'(

[K3 Chris Onwiler]

Watching him come around the corner after hearing his nails clicking, his tail just a waggin as he sees me in the office. I'd leave the door open on the woodstove in the basement for awhile, and he'd just soak up the heat, standing there gazing at the flames.  The house feels empty. He's not there to watch me make coffee in the morning or talk to about squirells he missed in the backyard.  

OK, that made me cry....
Pound puppys are the best dogs in the world.  I should know, because I have two.  I played with them a little harder last night....

[251am]

 Sorry Chris, not my intention. I will go to the pound today and take a look see. We've been looking at the rescue sites for variuos breeds. Porter was a cross between a beagle and a dacschund and a black and tan coonhound. The most personable funnest happy dog I've seen. We'll be looking around soon. Thanks for your help guys-the pain is starting to melt away. Thanks.

[Decreasing_Dave]

Taste like chicken.........


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