[HeliGlock]

So Sorry for your Loss. Had to put my Brystal down last year. I Rescued a Yellow lab when she was 8 months old in November. She is now 1 year old and Awesome.

[harleygsb]

I put my great yellow lab down about 2 years ago. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do and it tore me up. I feel for you.

[janice6]

I'm so sorry for your loss. After years living with them and being an active part of the family, it is so hard to lose them. You can't replace them but you can help a new pet find a home.

Bless them and never forget them.

[Kamo]

I'm so sorry for your loss eagle; the love of a dog is unmatched and I hope by this time you and your family are feeling a bit better. My Barney is 13 and has slowed down considerably in the past six months. I dread the day when I'll have to say goodbye to the best pup that ever lived. I wish I knew how to post a picture; he's as adorable now as he was when I brought him home from the shelter, abused and neglected at the ripe old age of one.

RIP Bandit.

[chpullen]

Eagle;

Great looking boy. I'm so sorry for your loss. I've got a dachshund that has been showing his age lately, and it already breaks my heart. We have to love them while we have them.

[eaglefrq]

Thanks again to everyone for your thoughts and prayers.

Please take my advice and spend as much time with your pets as possible. Have fun and play with them. Yes, it will make the end harder, but you won't have any regrets that you didn't do more with them.

[APERS]

Very sad, sorry for youre loss!

[Java Junky]

Eagle, if it's any consolation, I hate to say out loud that our time with Mary Margaret's getting short, but I've made'a point to do the things she loves to do each day.
And I try my best to memorize her as she futiley chases her chipmunks, throws her chest out (it's a Newark thing) at anybody walkin' through her neighborhood and sleeps in that indescribable position that only Mastiff owners know exists.
Now . . is within our grasp.
Later . . well . . it's just too damned late, izz'n'itt?

At such a time of pain for you, I thank you for thinking to advise the rest of us.
'Much obliged brutha.

[Sierra9]

Very sorry for your loss. I know the pain and am currently losing my best friend. All the best.

[ca survivor]

I am sorry for your loss.

[OMCHamlin]

I'm sorry for your loss, I know how you feel;

The Nail in my Garage Wall
There was a 16 penny nail in the wall of the small work shed at the last house we rented; I know this because I put it there soon after we first moved in. On it, hung a nondescript collection of dog collars, some leather, some web, some with patterns, mostly plain, all of them faded, with stray hairs, some a deep, rusty red, others black or brown, curly, short, some grey. Tags adorn their metal loops, quietly fading to a patina. Doesn’t look like much, this faded jumble of old collars, and you wouldn’t give it much thought if you even noticed them at all.
But to me, they are my dear sweet dogs, each of them steeped in fond remembrances of a beloved friend who has gone on, memories of a cold nose against my side at night, a fierce, life or death game of tug of war with an old piece of rope or a stick, a low, rumbled growl that woke me in the wee hours of the morning, harkening me; “Beware! Something wrong is out there!” A wagging tail and a piercing “yip”, when I stumbled through the door at the end of a long day, hated by some, scorned by others, clearly a failed wretch, not worthy of my anchors, but that tail, those bright, playful, inquisitive eyes, they told me always, I was loved, and would always be, no matter what…
That nail was pulled out of that shed wall, when we moved, the old rusty nail and those tired collars moved with us, to our first ever “bought” house, and found again a home, a place of honor, in my garage. I’ll add another collar to that nail someday, most likely sooner, sadly, rather then later, for that is how the circle goes on, I wouldn’t have it any other way, nor I hope, would they…

[RLB]

Sorry for your loss.

[ashecht]

SO sorry for your loss. He was an adorable boy. Be comforted that he knew you loved him. Dogs enrich out lives so much Abd are never with us long enough. A house is not a home unless a dog live there.

[Jack23]

My condolences on the loss of your friend. He was a a beautiful dog. We lost our Frito about 3 weeks ago and I still miss him so bad I can't sleep at night. I hope things get better for you soon.