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Comment by TexasDocMom on March 31, 2009 at 10:35pm
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I have another friend who lost her dog today, the Bridge is busy tonight, a big welcoming party for the new folks coming to wait for the people they love...
He loves you for taking care of him, kathleen, he counted on you to end his pain and you came through for him. God bless you and remember tonight that good dog is pain free, running like a puppy near the Bridge, watching for you.
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Brody understands. Hold his head close to you, let your scent be his last breath. You'll feel his pain leave.
I couldn't have set a date, I just got up one morning and went that day, I don't know how I would handle those days leading up to the vet appointment. good luck Kathleen, we will all be thinking of you and Brody as he leaves for the Bridge.
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Comment by CCR on March 7, 2009 at 7:13pm
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Karen, my ultimate dream job would be to have a therapeutic riding clinic for abused/neglected and/or mentally ill children. There are some for handicapped people, but I would think you'd have to hire a nurse (Physical therapist) for that.
Just teaching kids about horses raises their confidence level the more they are able to relate to them, and get them to respond to them.
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My cousin's wife, in Utah, works in the court system with abused and molested children. She brought in two dogs, to be friends , help the kids...the dogs responded so well...they wore them out. Those dogs carried the loads for those kids, & got depressed...had to bring in more dogs so the dogs could be rotated in and out, get a break. Those dogs go to court with those children, help them face down the predators that molested them. Anyone who sees this has to know how these wonderful beasts connect with human hearts.
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Kathleen, I'm sorry to hear Brodie's not doing well. Is he in pain? How are you and your family doing with this? good wishes to you all, I know it's breaking your hearts.
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Stitches and dogs never do very well together, do they? they always find a way to rub or scratch them. Hope she's better tonight.
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Beautiful! I love a big black dog with a beautiful soft coat...lucky them! lucky you!
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another one:
The family's dog was bought to guard,
Chained to a post in a chilly backyard,
House in a shed that was airless and dark,
With nowhere to go, could do nothing but bark.
When boredom set in with no fun and no work,
One day it broke loose and went quietly berserk,
Pa couldn't fathom just why it went wild,
As it flattened his wife and knocked down his child.
The police were called in to sort out the mess,
And the whole sorry tale was revealed in the press,
The Rescue Society was really annoyed,
So, the dog was re-homed, and the owners destroyed.
~Author unknown~
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Kathleen, your vet and my vet would have some good debates! Boomer's vet when he was a puppy, at about 6 months told me one reason there are so many over weight dogs is puppy food. He told me to get him off "that growth food". Boomer had weight issues all his life. Sometimes I think the mix of different breeds just do not mix well. Allergies, watching his weight and then in his old age , his arthritic old joints.. then blindness....bless his heart, he still was our guard!
We know he had Border Collie (most gentle dogs in the world!), possibly Lab? barrel chested like a pit bull...and when I picked him up his mother was just a little brown non decript dog. So who knows?
He was such a gentle giant...and blind or not, he finally made a "kill"...in our backyard! I don't know how, it had never happened before, but he got left out all night one time...and his sight was not good at this point, I know now...and he cornered himself a possum in the compost pile. We woke up to Boomer and the possum eye to eye...and when I went out to get him...BAM, he was on it! my Boomer became a killer dog. He was so proud. and smelled so bad!
I was secretly very pleased for him, he had done it all....
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look at the size of those paws...never mind the ears! he's going to be 115 lbs easy...I wouldn't leave him on the growth puppy food too long...says the woman who had Boomer, who went all the way to 120 before being reduced to 2 cups total doggie diet food and still never got much below 90 lbs!
Is he a clumsy guy? too much leg and ears and not enough balance yet?
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