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I love seeing everyone's pets. Let's post pictures and talk about our animal friends.

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Jefferson's buddy.

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Comment by TexasDocMom on February 25, 2009 at 5:31pm
When I am old, I will wear soft gray sweatshirts
and a bandana over my silver hair
and I will spend my social security checks on wine and my dogs.

I will sit in my house on my well-worn chair
and listen to my dogs' breathing.
I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night
and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow...

When people come to call, I will smile
and nod as I show them my dogs and talk of them and about them
the ones so beloved of the past
and the ones so beloved of today

I will still work hard cleaning after them,
mopping and feeding them and whispering their names
in a soft loving way.

I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat,
like a jewel and I will be an embarrassment to all
especially my family who have not yet found
the peace in being free to have dogs as your best friends

These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall
and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep,
to greet you as if you are a God.

With warm eyes
full of adoring love and hope that you will always stay,
I'll hug their big strong necks
I'll kiss their dear sweet heads
and whisper in their very special company.

I look in the Mirror and see I am getting old
this is the kind of person I am and have always been.
Loving dogs is easy, they are part of me.

Please accept me for who I am.
My dogs appreciate my presence in their lives
they love my presence in their lives
When I am old this will be important to me
you will understand when you are old if you have dogs to love too.

~ Author Unknown ~
Comment by TexasDocMom on February 23, 2009 at 1:09am
grandcats! my friend used to have granddogs...so these must be grandcats!
Comment by TexasDocMom on February 22, 2009 at 12:16pm
Donna, I was very blessed to work with and for dog lovers the day I had to lose Boomer. I just called and told them "today's the day". And they told me to let them know if I was coming the next day.
I love that little pup!

Donnita! My next door neighbor has a little dog like that! very misleading name "Elizabeth"...very feminine name! Her owner calls her a "junk yard dog"...she's tough! One time I saw her attach herself to a Great Dane's ankle, and he literally could not shake her off...it was like watching a living cartoon, I could not stop laughing...he kept shaking that back leg..."go away, you bother me" and she had to be pried off of him. I don't know what the poor Great Dane did to tick her off...
Comment by CathieRenee on February 17, 2009 at 9:25pm
This is my Zeusieee aka SCD Reigning Thunder, WAC, TT

Comment by CathieRenee on February 17, 2009 at 9:18pm
Kathleen, you can try some cooked hamburger (drain off the fat) mixed with cooked white rice or boiled chicken mixed with cooked white rice to tempt him to eat.
I know exactly what you are going through. I lost my Casey 2 years ago last Sunday. After the Mast Cell tumor, he was diagnosed with Central Diabetes Insipidus, then arthritis and spondylosis. I lost him to hemangiosarcoma. He was almost 11 yrs old and I miss him every day.
Comment by TexasDocMom on February 17, 2009 at 8:47pm
What wonderful dogs, large and small! I love coming here to see the pictures!

I'm sorry to hear about your dog, Kathleen. We lost our big Boomer, the guy in the pictures with Rosie about 18 months ago, I miss him every day. His arthritis and the meds that helped him were just too much, then he lost his sight. He was always the big brave teddy bear, he protected us all, but he was just so disoriented that last night and the next morning I made the call to the vet.I found Boomer with his nose buried in my husband's shoe, anything to be close, since he couldn't see us. He walked into that vet's office, went right to the scale ( he got his arthritis shot there every week, he knew the drill) got on it, then chose his room...and he got all the treats he couldn't normally have because of his allergies....people came in on their day off to be with us, he was so loved. When I started to cry, his head came up to console me, and then the shot relaxed him, my scent was his last breath. It was a moment I will always treasure, loving that dog. I felt the pain leave him and he was at the Bridge.

you'll know when it's time and your friend will thank you.
Comment by CathieRenee on February 17, 2009 at 8:30pm
I had a Doberman that had a small grade 1 Mast Cell tumor on his head. It was surgically removed with clean margins and did not reoccur.
Mast Cell tumors in dogs produce histamine when stimulated. Histamine increases stomach acid production. You may want to ask your vet about an antihistamine and/ or an acid reducer for your dog.
Prednisone is the medication of choice in treating mast cell cancer. It too can be irritating to the stomach.
Comment by TexasDocMom on February 15, 2009 at 3:40am
Pug and beagle? is he a runner...what a face, the look on his face is priceless!
Comment by TexasDocMom on February 5, 2009 at 4:53pm
When my son was deployed he told me..."mom, guys may tell their girlfriends or their mothers that they miss them most...but we miss our dogs."...or cats!

Boomer was very arthritic, he and I took the same type of glucosomine, cheaper to buy it in huge bottles. The last two years of his life he was on adequane injections, they made a big difference for quite a while. He just got so frail, and lost his sight, he was always our brave, gentle protector, I couldn't watch it any more. That last liberty before we lost him,my son knew he would not be here the next time he came home, he held that dog in his arms one night and just talked to him so gently.

Just watch their stool on those drugs, Boomer had a terrible hemorrhage that should have been caught earlier, but I was out of town and Matt's dad didn't pay attention, almost lost him then.
Comment by abbyblue on February 5, 2009 at 4:52pm

 

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