In 4 hours it will have been been 4 days since I lost Rex and a little more than 3 days since I wrote this and I still miss him terribly. I was not prepared for him to go from what I thought was perfectly healthy to passing away in less than a week.


Rex
April, 13, 1999 to May 03, 2011.

I never knew that silence could be so loud.
After 12 years of hearing it every day there will be no more 6 am wake up barks or 6 pm exasperation barks because it was time to eat and how could I have forgotten??? No more sounds of Rex running up and down the stairs while barking. No more running up and down the stairs with a racquetball in his mouth while trying to bark either. The muffled sound of his bark when he had that ball in his mouth always made me laugh out loud. No more crawling in your lap to pet him until he fell asleep. No more anything with Rex because he passed away today Tuesday May 3, 2011 at 6 am and I already miss him terribly.

Rex is the tri-colored sheltie. Snow is the all white Samoyed. We've had Snow just over a year and a half. She was a stray we found Thanksgiving of 2009.






Wheels

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No doubt Rex had a good home.

We lost our Elkhound last August after 12 years and my wife still cries at night whenever she thinks about him. Although I only cried the day we had to put him down, reading your story makes me want too. I know what your going through.

i lost my dog kim who was 9 months younger than myself at the age of 15, shed had a heart murmur for a while and had some medication for it unfortunatly it got worse and her kidneys couldnt take the stronger medication, and she was put to sleep after she had kidney failure no more running around the house out down the garden and back in again everytime we came home from somewhere as if she hadnt seen us for years, no more hiding from her and her chasing around until she found us, i understand how it is matey also lost one of my rabbits a couple weeks ago, she was only just over a year old, came home from work went out back to feed them and she was just laying sort of with it but not tried everything i could to save her but she slipped away

Aw man, I'm sorry for your loss. I understand the pain, been through it. They say time heals all wounds, and it does, to an extent. Hang in there.

Very sorry. It is like losing a child in a way. We lost my wife's dog a number of years ago. It broke my heart, I literally bawled. It's funny, I didn't even like the dog. I never would have predicted that. Love is strange. I'd like to get another dog now I am retired and could use a buddy out here and now I have time to take care of him/her. I am leaning toward rescue/adult dog.
I noticed her loss every day for a long time. No dog.
It gets better with time....

Sorry to hear Wheels.

I know what you are going thru my friend.I lost little Joey,Rusty and Pay in less than two year and now a year or more later I still have this pain in my heart.God I loved those dogs.

They ask for so little and gave so much.They say time heals and I suppose it does but for me the lost of my dogs still hurts and I don't think I'll ever get over it completely.

Love the one you have left and just give it time.Sorry for your loss Wheels.

Well take comfort in the obvious fact that Rex had a full and well-loved life. 12 years ain't bad for a Sheltie.

We have a difficult decision to make in the next week or so. Our Disaster Dog Ria has an enormous tumor about the size of a cricket/baseball where her ear was before it was removed late last year due to Mast Cell carcinoma; the vet feels no further action should or could be taken as the cancer has returned so quickly and treatment would be so drastic.
She is not showing discomfort or distress at the moment, but this will come soon as the growth is increasing in size radically and there is evidence of further sites on her body. She was a stray in Ireland and spent a long time in kennels as no-one liked the look of her.(Ridgeback Greyhound cross) but a more loving and gentle dog dog we have never had, though she is a most terrible opportunist thief.

One would think one would get used to this sort of thing; we lost our old Lab to old age and a fostered Staffie to Cushings disease last year, but you don't.
I feel for your loss old chap. Best solution to one's grief in my opinion is to give another abandoned dog the benefit of existance that
Rex enjoyed.

Very sorry for your loss... We've lost 3 pets over the years, it NEVER gets any easier.

Sorry, Wheels.
I know the pain. Animals have that way of attaching themselves to you, and it suxs when they pass away.

I feel for you. My wife has only seen me cry once in 13 yrs, and that was when I had to put my first Boxer Hagler down. Very painful feeling of loss for a few days, but the years of daily smiles and laughs they brought you are worth it.

He was a good looking dog Wheels.

So sorry for you and your wife, Wheels. Been there, and its not a good place to visit. We lost Bear about six years ago and it was really tough on both my wife and I and our two grown sons. We eventually buried his ashes in his favorite sunning spot in our flower bed.

Bummer. I'm sorry to hear about that. I laid down on the couch with my beloved Retro the cat last night and he was happy to have some alone time with no Kai running around chasing him. He is getting up there and doesn't have a lot of years left.. I won't be able to stand it when he is gone. I'm a sap..

Hope your pain eases soon..

The depth of the pain a pet owners feel when they lose a pet is an indication of how much their pet loved them. They are equal opposites - like Newton's Law of Physics. Maybe we'll call it the law of "love and loss."

Sorry wheels. As others have already said, he had a great home with a loving owner.

my sympathy......there has been no worse sorrow that I have known than taking loved dogs on that last ride to the vet. I have done it 3 times over the years and I can't think about it to this day

wheels, I wish that there was more we all could do. seems that we all have fond memories and suffered the losses, so we do understand in a way. the only true nightmare I've ever had is the recurring experience of seeing my dachshund hit by a car as she ran out to play with us kids in the yard. I was about 10 at the time and it was the first loss of anything that I really loved. It is a good sign that people care so deeply about some things. My condolences.

It's just over two years since I lost my beautiful little girl, and it still hurts quite a lot.



She was 15.5 years old.

So I'm also sorry to hear of your loss, they're often better than 99% of people you come across.

Feel for you Wheelsup. A few months ago I lost my sweet girl. Just short of 13 and she had developed diabeties. Was a hard choice to make for us, but she went peacefully. Everyone loved her and even the vet cried when then time came, to put her to sleep.

They are just like our kids, and losing them is no different to anyone we are close to.


Scottyoz

Two summers ago we lost our 17 year old Scottie, Bucca to cancer. 17 years is an awesomely long time for any pet so we felt very lucky we had her so long. But it was so very hard letting her go. I held her in my arms as she stopped breathing. IT still chokes me up thinking about it. We've anothher wonderful rescue Scottie named Brodie who's also been diagnosed with TCC cancer. He's 11 1/2 so he's had a good life too but it's gonna be hard when that time comes..

Here's the link to a video tribute my wife made for Bucca... as she was her dog before we met...




I can't watch the vid without getting all verklempt...

I read many times of people saying pets cross the 'rainbow bridge' and don't really buy it but Bucca did visit me in a dream soon after she died and wanted us to go with her and her other dog friends, but the ground crumbled up and wouldn't let me go with her... She reluctantly 'said' goodbye and ran off with the other dogs.. and I woke up crying... I'm crying now as I write this..

Peace all