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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: AWMac on June 12, 2008, 07:45:14 PM
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He whined like a baby when we got him...Watta pup.
Golden Retriever.. pure bred.
I slept with him in the Livingroom for a few nights until he got accustomed to his new home.
He had a favorite pillow, blanket and a stuffed ugly toy called "Hootie". Every morning when I let him out he'd drag the pillow, then the blanket and Hootie out into the backyard. Funny as hell to watch.
Plus he always had a red bandana around his neck... made him look kewl.
I'd fish from the bank of the pond and he was at first afraid of the water. He lost his bandana once on the bank and sadly looked at me to get it back. After 3 or 4 casts I pulled it in...he was thinking it was his again, I held it from him... he whined and begged for it. He got it back.
First time he barked in the garage he sounded hugh...he liked that. Puppy training.
I had two Daughters at the time and I'd take him into the pool shed, Daughters would run all over the back yard and hide... send him out to find them and he's pick up the scent and follow it...find them both... over and over again.
One Easter after Church I rehid the eggs in the backyard for my Daughters to hunt again...with Oryan with me. 30 minutes later I brought the girls out and Oryan had all the eggs in a pile, chest out, proud of himself...LOL
He protected my young Son from getting near the pool. Always placing himself between Jake and the pool. Oryan also had his own lil inflatable raft... he wasn't allowed to get into the pool cuz of hair...but I'd let him in after the wifey went to bed. Oryan was very protective of his raft. It was a good game to try and swip it.
Okay I'm rambling now... Oryan was a great dog and a good friend.
He got sick 2 days ago and went downhill fast.
I brought him into the house yesterday to doctor him up...he wouldn't eat. Made sure he was drinking water.
Slept last night on the Livingroom floor next to him. At 5am he laid next to me and quit breathing.
He was 13 Years old and a great friend.
Today I lost my dog.
Mac
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Sorry to hear it Mac. It's hurts as bad as losing a family member because they are.
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Sorry Mac. Sounds like he was a lucky dog to have such a good home.
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dam dude....sorry.........that just made me think of losing my shepard years ago......i still miss her
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That really sucks. Sounds like a great dog.
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Mac <--- Puffy eyes.
I loved my dog... Yeah they are like Family members.
He loved me too.
He was a great dog and friend.
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Okay let's move along...pets die. Nothing to see here.
Mac
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Sorry to hear about your loss, it's something we know will happen to our dogs, but not easy to experience. We had a Golden too, he was just the best dog. It took quite a while to get over losing him.
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i am literally days away from having to put one of my old fellers down.
dreading it.
sorry for your loss mac. can't imagine many things worse.
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Thanks JB88... it hurt Bro... Hope all goes well with you and yer dog.
Mac
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Dago
I know Man... Goldies are Great!
It was like losing a child, best friend, Brother.
Mac
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<S> bro, :( I won't even bother being funny to cheer you up, I cried for a few days when my cat died... shoot that was like 9 years ago :(
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I'm terribly sorry my friend.... I don't have the words <S>
and <S> Oryan
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I am sorry to hear that :(
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Nooooooooooo :cry
Mac....they ARE family members. My four legged kids are just as much a family as any other family. Their love is unconditional, they dont talk about you, and they never lie. How much more can you ask.
My heart goes out to you.
They were lucky to have you.
You were lucky to have them.
:salute To you and the fuzzy loved, and lost.
ROX
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Sorry to hear Mac.
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Pets can be family memners. The good ones ARE family and often are better family than the 2 legged kind we are born into a relationship with.
Sorry your buddy had to leave. Wait a while and find another one. You know that's what he would want.
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Sorry Mac. No words help I know. When I lost my last dog I had to take a day off from work and my buddies had to come bury him for me. I was a damn wreck to say the least.
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Very sorry to hear f your loss.
Been there myself a few times now.
And will be there again at least two more times.
Thing is. I know it doesnt get any easier.
No more then the passing of any other member of the family.
Have a Golden myself now. Along with a Chocolate Lab.
Great damn dogs.
you can have other kinds of animals.
you can have all sorts of people around you.
But you will never have a better friend
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Sad to hear it.
What you wrote is exactly why dogs are so much better than cats.
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Damn Mac, sorry to hear. :frown:
But at least he had a full and happy life with you and your family, and you were able to love and enjoy him.
I've had German Shepherds in my family all of my adult life, and been through this more than I care to think about.
Maverick has the right idea...go find yourself a puppy as soon as you can bring yourself to do it.
Joker
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Sorry to hear about this, Macs
Dogs give their love and never show pain. Gotta admire them for that.
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Damn Mac, Real sorry to hear about losing a companion like that. You do know he saved you from having to make that decision we all hope we never have to make.
The wife and I bought a Golden Retriever 3 years after we lost our last mutt (had her for 16 years).
1st purebread I've ever paid good money for. He's 2 now, what a great dog. Love him like one of my kids.
Can't keep him outta the water, he lives for it. Took him to OGIE's one night swimming in his inground pool. After we got tired of throwing his toy in for him to dive after, he decided to do it himself. He'd drop it in one end, go around to the steps and hop in and swim to get it. Absolutely hilarious to watch. Here's a Pic of Shiloh bout 6 months ago.
(http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u28/shawk_photos/ShilohDec07002.jpg)
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Sorry about your friend.I had to put my namesake and avatar down at the age of four with terminal cancer.
It sucks,but take some comfort in knowing your dog lived a long and happy life my friend.
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Man it sux... caught myself twice today wanting to go check his water bowl.
A great loss of Love. I just hope someday I'm as good as a person that he thought I was.
Mac
Thanx all for the kind words.
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tried to call you bro ... ya I still have the digits
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Its heartbreaking Mac. Takes alot of time after that happens. Sorry bud.
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tried to call you bro ... ya I still have the digits
check yer PMs.
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Heartbreaking Mac, sorry. I can truly say, I know how you feel. Soon, your feelings will change from grievious loss to wistful smile when you think of him. You'll miss him but you'll be able to smile when you think of him.
Steve
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What hurts is I laid beside him when he came into my home and laid beside him when he passed on.
He cried like a baby first, now I'm the one cryin like a baby.
I guess it takes time to heal.
13 Years and sometimes we just take things for granted.
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1995 I was in the midst of buying a boat, thinking I was in the best relationship of my life, a promotion at work, and bought a new car.
1995 Buick Skylark. Took ownership November 1995. Last December I took it to the junk yard. 192,000 miles blown head gasket, cost over $2000 to replace. I used that car to it's fullest. I drove to Atlanta, GA 4 times from Milwaukee, 20 times to Upper Michigan, and all over.
I miss that car. I knew every quirk, I knew what it would do at 110mph on US65 north from Indianapolis last year even, he had room to grow even then...
but I had to let him go. I can still feel the broken drivers seat I was too fat for it. I still reach for that stereo knob in the wrong place. I still pull into the wrong side to pump gas with my "new" ride. I miss my GM V6 with 100,000+ miles on it whooping the toejam out of my buddies 2003 Honda Accord off the line, AND 55 to 75 on the highway (even without kids in the car and driving reckless he could never touch me).
Here's my 1995 baby Mac
(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z125/JB73Mustaine/photo_0016.jpg)
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uh oh. miller time.
cheers.
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HAHAHAHAHAH <Clink> *poof
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Sorry for your loss Mac. :(
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Had a recent scare with Bradley. A couple of tumors found during belly rub time. Turns out they were benign, and he will be around a little longer. Since he was adopted as an adult dog we have no real idea how old he is, but best guess is 10ish.
(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee27/Tahgut/Picture053-1.jpg)
Bradley was actually adopted based on recommendations from this BBS.
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it's the hardest part to deal with, in owning a pet...gone through it three times...but their lives they shared with us make it worth the pain.
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That rough mac. It took me a long time to get a dog after my last one died because of the pain involved. But the dogs are already born, already going to die someday and all you can do is be the best friend possible in return and give them the best life in return for their loyalty and love and friendship and its all right. It sounds like you did just that.
Charon
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HAHAHAHAHAH <Clink> *poof
Another nice thing about dogs is that I have yet to meet one that was a total boinking butt hole.
Charon
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The water dish thing reminds me of when my Shep walked into my bedroom when I lived in Toronto, looked at me and tilted his head a bit. Without even thinking about it I went into the kitchen and got him some water which he drank and then went and laid down totally content.
Some friends were over and watched the entire thing and everyone was just stunned at how I knew he wanted water, it wasn't as if the head tilt thing was something he did regularly at all....just that one time. I couldn't explain it either, somehow I just knew he wanted water.
After I had to put him down for months afterwards I would arrive home and very carefully open my front door because when he was alive he'd be right there and I would have to be careful not to slam him with the door as I opened it.
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Man Mac :(
I still get all emotional when I think of my dogs that have passed.
:salute
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:salute
Sorry to hear this Mac.
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Another nice thing about dogs is that I have yet to meet one that was a total boinking butt hole.
Charon
Well put Charon, some people just don't know when to shut up.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers
:salute
Joker
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Sorry to hear about your loss Mac. Losing a dog is heartbreaking.
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Sorry to hear this Mac - L and I are thinking of ya,
<S>
Wurzel
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Sorry to hear.
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Sorry to hear about your loss Mac. Our dog is like a child to us, I hate to think what is going to be like when he passes on. If I were you, I would find another dog soon. Not as a replacement as there can never be a replacement for him, but to have another puppy to share your love with and to receive joy from.
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The only thing that has gotten me over the sad times of missing them is remembering the times they made you laugh your backside off. No joke!
Corky was a cockapoo that was who knows how old when we got him from the rescue center in Deerfield, IL. He was my best friend in junior high school. I'd come off the football field after practice and my mom would open the car door and he's run right to me. 40 other kids around and he could care less.
He also would be SO happy to see you come home that he would haul backside on the carpet and try to attempt to make that 90 degree left hand turn in the dining room (vinyl flooring) to get to see you and never quite negotiate that turn and wipe out into the dining table chairs like a NASCAR spinning into the infield. He'd try and shake it off and then come scampering over to the back door to greet you....tail wagging 1000 mph!
Every March (in knee deep snow) he'd break his chain and run off (dog in heat on North Bonnie Brook Road) and come home that night, wet, stinking, and looking like a drowned rat...but with a look on his face like "sorry...I had a DATE...REALLY".
He'd also hop up on the couch with me and my girlfriend (future wife) and INSIST on giving her "smooches"...of course he had old dog breath that would knock a buzzard to the floor...but he HAD to do it. What a household ambassador of STANK. Even she couldn't stop laughing.
Mac...tell us of some of the times he cracked you up!!!
ROX
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Oryan was smart. Instead of the ol "sit" and "speak" stuff I taught him better.
I'd get him to bark by saying "Flat Cat". I ask him "How do you grab a cat?" and he grab his tail in his mouth... then "Take Kitty for a walk" and he'd try and walk pullin his tail... 3 steps and he'd fall down. He was the life of all the BBQ's. He knew he had a great gig going on and he'd get rewarded by anyone there.
One day he was on his lil inflatable raft in the pool and the girls would mess with him by swimming underneath him. He put his head underwater once and tried to bark at the girls..Thought both of my Daughters were gonna drown they were laffin so hard... They came outta the pool spittin up water and Oryan, still on his raft, had that "See I showed them look". We were all in tears laffin so hard.
We had some hornets that was into the rock side of the house near the pool. He seen these hornets fly in and out of a little hole and decided to investigate. He stuck his nose up to the hole and learned fast that these lil buggers fight back. He got stung on the eyebrow and on the lip. I had to put and ice cube on his eyebrow and he got a Popsickle for the lip. Poor guy looked rough. The wifey and I sprayed the hole down with killer spray. A week later the wifey and I are cleaning up around the pool and when we got to where the hornets used to be Oryan was on the other side of the pool frantically barkin has arse off at us as if to say "Don't go over there....they bite." He never would go near that spot for Years.
As a pup he'd just do funny stuff. Daughter left Roller Blades in the backyard. I was sittin in the livingroom sippin coffee and a blur went past the window... I looked and he had stuck his nose into one of the roller blades and was just running as fast as he could over and over again. I guess he thought the vibrations was kewl. I passed coffee thru my nose.
Oryan was more than just a dog. He was Great!
Mac
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I feel for ya.I had to put my 13 yr old Collie down last feb.Its never easy.
(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m141/Drs109/Ginger2.jpg)
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<S> Oryan
wrngway
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Mac
So sorry to hear it -
We have a mutt that has been our kid for 14 years now - 4 years ago we picked up another mutt at the pound because we were told Riley probably wouldn't last too much longer - she was slowing down and showing the signs - as soon as the puppy came home - Riley needed to dominate and once again was acting like a 3 year old pup again - she is on daily arthritis medicine - she still needs to dominate - be the first dog out the door - first dog in everything - loves to still wrestle -play bite as we throw a blanket over her head -
My wife will cry for days when she finally passes
My heart goes out to you
NwBie
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So sorry to hear.
I got my dog on a whim. I figured if it didn't work out, I'd sell him or give him away. Well, I took him for his first shots and put him in his kennel when we got home. I'd check on him every now and then, and he just didn't look right - kind of listless. Well finally I decide, if the puppy is going to die in the night, it isn't going to die alone, so I put it in bed with me. I only half slept afraid I was going to roll on the thing, but did wake to find the thing licking me in the face.
So much for giving it away or selling it.
He's six year old now and my best bud. He's sleeping at my feet as I type this. I can only imagine the loss you feel, but I don't like to.
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After I wrote that my dog came down with a bout of vomiting and diarrhea (on Monday night). That usually doesn't worry me, and I went through the regular routine of withholding water until no vomiting for 6 hours etc. Usually, I'll have my dog back on a food in 36 hours. This time I couldn't past step one ( no vomiting for 6 hours after water), so I took him to the vet this morning to make sure nothing else was going on. He checked out fine, and the vet gave him a shot for nausea and some pills for his diarrhea. She also told me to withhold everything ( water and food for 24 hours). We got home at about noon, and I told my brother on the phone, I was going out to eat, because my dog couldn't eat and I didn't want to eat in front of him. He asked me "do you really think like that?"
Well I do and I don't think its strange if anyone has ever had a companion animal. I know what you were going through that night you slept on the floor with your dog. There was nothing you could do but make sure he/she wasn't alone. Some people don't get that. I do.
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Thanx BTW. Good post.
I hope all goes well with your dog.
Mac
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Sorry to hear, buddy. Never easy.
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Sorry to hear that Mac.
Lost my dog Jordan last 2 Superbowls ago. He ran away that night, as he had the tendency to do, and he would always come back and sit on the front porch at morning. I woke up one morning and he wasn't there, and I never saw him again.
Chocolate lab and a hell of a friend. He was a hell of a hunting dog. Listened well and swam like a beast. Retrieved well too. Always loved "racing" him to bed as he slept with me all the time. Cya buddy...you'll always be missed
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Read the first few posts of this thread last week. Saturday night I had the strangest dream about a dog from my childhood. In my dream he was laying very still in the floor board of my pickup, on the verge of death. As I drove around I would say a few words to him and he would lift his shaggy, grey muzzled head and look at me with smiling eyes. It was so sad and disturbing it finally woke me up about 4 in the morning. When I came out my nightmarish slumber I remembered every detail like it had just happened and after a few moments I realized that I was not sad anymore. Can’t describe the feeling really but it felt nice to see him again. He was a good dog, friend and family more than pet really who kept us out of trouble and protected us countless times. My brother and I saved him from some older neighborhood kids that were tossing him in the air by his legs. They landed a few blows but we managed to grab the puppy and run back home. The mutt traveled back to the states with us and lived to be a little over thirteen years old. Miss him everyday…
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Best wishes to you and your dog mac.
:salute