re: Hug your dogs tonight for me

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I had him cremated since I didn't want to dig a hole for a 100 lb lab. I'd recommend burying her yourself if possible.

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I feel like I have been hit by a freight train. I can remember even the day I picked her up that this day would one day come and it would be terrible, but I never would have imagined god would steal my girl away from me like this at such a young age. Sure doesn’t seem fair. Maybe god just needed a better bird dog.

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Good lord man, it's a dog, not a human. Get a hold of yourself. I've lost great dogs and have seen many other men lose great dogs. I've never seen any one of them carry on like you're doing. It sucks, but dogs die. Be thankful for your time you had together and go get another one. Or don't, because it's going to die too. It's what they do.

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MobileJosh

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Spend as much time as you can with them, right up to the end. I read an interview with a vet one time who told of the saddest thing they regularly experienced. It was people who had reached the point that they had to put their dog to sleep. They came to the vet office, and just handed their dog off to the vet to take it to a back room by itself. The dog, already on deaths door or otherwise in pain, was now by itself in a foreign place with no one it has known or loved, on a cold metal table. The vet talked about how sad these dogs seemed to be of spending their final moments alone with a stranger. Moral being, as hard as it will be, if you have the chance, stay with your dog until the end. They will at least pass on knowing you are there right next to them, the same way they have been since day one. I most certainly will be holding my girl close until the end.

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why do you have to be such an a-hole pretty much all the time?

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