Time to go

cookie_monster

Big hugs to you Mollsnan :grouphug: . In the long run it is the best thing to do rather than let her suffer. Just remember the wonderful 10years you had together. I lost my dog about 30 years ago and even now I think about him every so often.

zaksmum

When my old dog died I was beyond gutted. Couldn't sleep or eat and couldn't stop crying. Felt like my heart had been ripped out, I was such a wreck.

And the only thing that helped me was the certainty that I needed another dog. Not to replace the old fella, but just to have another little doggy baby to love and nurture.

I got my dog Jack just 5 months after I lost my old dog and immediately felt a million times better. He's 4 now and I can't imagine life without him.

Do give it serious consideration, Mollsnan. You have a lot of love and a safe caring home waiting for the right dog.

Country_Cousin

Oh I am so, so sorry. It is the greatest thing to love a dog so much that they do not suffer.

You do not have to decide about another dog now - wait and see how you feel.

Take care

Dollardog

zaksmum wrote: »

When my old dog died I was beyond gutted. Couldn't sleep or eat and couldn't stop crying. Felt like my heart had been ripped out, I was such a wreck.

And the only thing that helped me was the certainty that I needed another dog. Not to replace the old fella, but just to have another little doggy baby to love and nurture.

I got my dog Jack just 5 months after I lost my old dog and immediately felt a million times better. He's 4 now and I can't imagine life without him.

Do give it serious consideration, Mollsnan. You have a lot of love and a safe caring home waiting for the right dog.

I couldn't have said it better myself, that is exactly how I felt when my beloved Dollar went.
No other dog will ever replace the one you lost and you wouldn't want them to, they are all individuals with their own ways, but having another one does help to heal the rift they leave behind. Someone once said to me that getting another one was a tribute to the one who had passed, they had left such a big hole in your life and it was a tribute that you miss them so much you had to have something to fill the hole.
It might be too soon for you to think about one now, but maybe when all the comings and goings at Christmas have finished you might feel able to think about having another rescue.
Your little dog was so grateful to be given another chance at happiness, so glad you gave her the warmth and security of a home of her own. I'm sure she would like the opportunity to be given to another little needy dog.
You gave her a happy home and now you are going to do the best thing for her which is to put her out of her suffering, because she will in time suffer.
My last dog got a brain tumour and I had to make the awful decision to have him put down. He was a rescue dog who had been beaten and starved before I had him, had terrible behavior problems and was going to be put down by the rescue because nobody could do anything with him. I took him on and although he took some sortiing out, he made a lovely dog in the end. I made his last day very nice for him, we had had to go to another vet practice for a second opinion but I wanted to take him to his regular vet to be PTS. We stopped off on the way and I got him some slices of roast beef, his favourite, then went and sat by the lake in the park we used to go to and I told him how much I loved him and was going to miss him. I asked the vet to go out to the car to do the deed as he was sitting in the back of it quite happily. I could have left it a few more days but he was so confused that it wouldn't have been fair on him. Its the last act of love we can do for them.

Thinking of you.

walwin

I'm so very sorry. Believe me, I know how hard this is

I can't offer any advice as we're all different but I didn't want to just read and leave.

Thinking of you xx

mollsnan

Once again many thanks to all who have posted, for your wonderful support and kindness. A big hole is going to be left when our wee dog goes, but I think it would be a tribute to her to have another little rescue dog, perhaps after Christmas. We picked her up on 11th Jan 10 years ago, a pathetic little creature just neutred the previous week and not at all well. We hadn't had a dog in 25 years having gone through much the same thing once before. However for some strange reason I got up one Saturday morning and off we headed to the rescue centre. My family thought I had lost the plot, they had been nagging me for years to get a dog, and I was adamant there would not be a dog in my house again. Well off we went, and nothing suitable that day, my family were young then (in thier 20's now). Next day Sunday off we headed again just to get a bit of peace from them, and there we were shown a little cross border terrier who had came in the night before. Terrified of the other animals she was kept in the kitchen. They brought her out and she leaned shaking against my daughter's leg. She looked so mournful, what could we do, she was ours next day. She comforted them all when sick, sat with those who had had a bad day, seemed to know who needed her most. As each one moved out of the house, she missed them, and would roam around looking for them. Each visit and she smothered them. A grand-daughter came and we worried about the dog being jealous etc. Took it all in her stride, and sat guard beside the baby, watched over her when crawling, and sat side by side watching tele. A wise wee woman I think who loves us all. I remember the lady at the shelter telling us that she believed the dog picked you, not the other way round. I often wonder why I chose that particular day to get a dog, I have no idea where the notion came from at that time, we had neither talked about it, or thought about. Literally I think she was just meant for us. Now her time has come to leave us, and weather permitting a wee walk on the beach tomorrow, and a gravy dinner her favourite. And then we will face Monday as best we can. Thinking of her hopping on cloud sofas and chairs wearing wings and guarding us all., just as a little one described. Now isn't that a picture!Best wishes to you all. x

budget_babe

Best Wishes to you too, your story has really touched me today. I shall be thinking of you on Monday. Bless you all. :A

Budgie xxx

Fire_Fox

((hugs)) So sorry to read this, you are doing the kindest thing. Maybe you could consider fostering if you are not sure about a permanent canine member of your household? You know from this last time that you could do so much good in a needy dog's life and they could give just as much in return.

Dollardog

I think that's a wonderful picture that your little one describes and I do believe they stay with you in spirit.
Make tomorrow a really happy day for her and it will give you good memories too.
Good luck for Monday, you are doing the right thing by her.
xx

Froglet

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 can't be won.


You will be sad, I understand;
But don't let 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 don't want me to suffer so
The time has come, please let me go.

Take me where my needs they'll tend,
But please stay with me 'til the end
To hold me close and speak to me
Until my eyes no longer see.

I know in time you will agree,
It was a kindness done for me.
Although my tail its last has waved,
From pain and suffering I'm saved.

Please do not grieve that it was you
Who had this painful thing to do.
We've been so close, we two, these years;
Don't let your heart hold any tears.


Always makes me cry,even after losing my last beloved dog over 4 years ago.But i also find it a comfort and hope others do too.

I shall be thinking of you on Monday,mollsnan.