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Oh my gracious.

🙏🙏🙏

My son lost his dog about a month ago. She was 14 1/2. He said that every time you get a dog it's the beginning of just another tragedy because the dog is going to go long before you will. He has 2 kids and they were attached to that dog. My son had the dog before he had the kids. The kids have only known 2 dogs in their entire life. The other one passed about 3 years ago.

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Never not painful - the only true cost of partnering with a dog.

We are on our last partnerships, I think. Not fair to leave the canines behind, or not properly exercise them as they need.

I am sorry for your loss.

Not a easy thing to go through, been there. My heart goes out to you and your family and prayers sent for your little buddy.

Sorry to hear about your pup. We had a 4 yr old Springer that the family absolutely adored. Got a call on vacation that she seemed ill. 2 days later we were told she was riddled with cancer and would not make the weekend. Kids were devastated. Like others, she was to be our last dog and we would ease into retirement unbound by pets. 2 months later both my wife and I fond ourselves searching for another dog and are now moving fromm no more to maybe spring.

Yes.

Praying for you and the dead dog.

I have read every comment and for a tough guy that has bow-hunted bears, moose, and elk alone in the wilderness, it took a few Kleenexes to get through.

I would like to thank everyone who took the time to respond and to say a prayer for my little friend Kappa, who is no doubt right now playing with all my other dogs at Rainbow Bridge. All playing and chasing Grouse, Woodcock, Pheasant, Chukars, Quail, and Huns together. The poor little guy is going to have a tough time keeping up with my English Setters and German Shorthaired Pointer with his short little legs! lol

Great Poem, thanks for sharing it granitestate1, I have never seen it before. I emailed it to my better ½ as soon as I read it, hope it eases her pain.

I have a long-held belief that people who hunt and fish are the real salt of the earth type and are also the best people you will ever meet or know.

Your considerate, kind, and thoughtful responses to my thread, were so much more than I ever expected and only confirmed and deepened my lifelong belief.

I have said a prayer for the other beloved dogs lost by members in this thread. All of them happily playing at Rainbow Bridge and eagerly waiting to see us again in the distant future.

24-Hour Campfire Members are the best and may God Bless every one of you.

“Tis Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Thank you kindly to all ~ KB

Watch that Twilight Zone episode I linked to. One of my favorites. Can't watch it with a dry eye, if you're a dog lover.

If heaven is anything like I imagine it, it will be absolutely full of good dogs that have gone on before us.

Hi The_Real_Hawkeye, I completely plan on watching it today after work and after a few beverages, I grew up watching Twilight Zone one of my favorites, was the one with the big game hunter that ended up on the wall of his trophy room lol.

Cheers

LOL. Yep.

Yep, that would be perfect!

Sure Sucks, shame that don't live longer.

Have been there.

Thanks The_Real_Hawkeye,

"I was born with a cheap set of ears" I will have to use that sometime lol

Just watched it, I would not have gone in either, it isn't heaven, unless your hunting dogs can get in too, that's a fact!

Cheers

Really sorry for you.

Prayer going up.

You’ll see him again.

Best dog I ever had is one I have presently. A little Shih Tsu / Poodle mix.

I dread The Day….

After putting Beamer to sleep after his getting hit by a car my grandson, in tears, asked me if dogs go to heaven. I told him that since God made them and they lived a more honorable life than most people, yes.

Sorry for your loss. All of us who have loved and lost a dear pet understands how you're feeling.