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**Frownland** · 03-13-2015, 12:17 AM

Really sorry for your loss Pete. I know how hard it can be.

LoathsomePete · 03-13-2015, 01:03 AM

Thank you everyone, it's been a very hard day trying to process it. Everything happened so fast, she was fine this morning, it was the day she was going to get her stitches out from her spay, but there was some minor complications and she needed to go back under and get a few more put in and she never came out of it.

There's been so many emotions and feelings, but I am trying to remember that the pain of today will fade in time whereas the good memories that made up everything else will live on forever. That being said, I also can't help but feel cheated, she was only 18 months, and we only got to enjoy 14 of those months together. There were a lot of things we never got to do, like go hiking in the mountains and play in real snow. She won't be the last St. Bernard, or the last dog, but there will never be another dog like her, and it's hard to imagine waking up tomorrow and not getting to go out for my morning walk with her.

I am glad it wasn't dragged out, it was sudden and painless. She didn't suffer and she lived a life where she was never hungry, never cold, never scared, and was always loved.

Key · 03-13-2015, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Thank you everyone, it's been a very hard day trying to process it. Everything happened so fast, she was fine this morning, it was the day she was going to get her stitches out from her spay, but there was some minor complications and she needed to go back under and get a few more put in and she never came out of it.

There's been so many emotions and feelings, but I am trying to remember that the pain of today will fade in time whereas the good memories that made up everything else will live on forever. That being said, I also can't help but feel cheated, she was only 18 months, and we only got to enjoy 14 of those months together. There were a lot of things we never got to do, like go hiking in the mountains and play in real snow. She won't be the last St. Bernard, or the last dog, but there will never be another dog like her, and it's hard to imagine waking up tomorrow and not getting to go out for my morning walk with her.

I am glad it wasn't dragged out, it was sudden and painless. She didn't suffer and she lived a life where she was never hungry, never cold, never scared, and was always loved.

It's one of the hardest things to go through in my experience. My dads / my cat recently decided that it was his time to go. He was almost 20 years old, which is old for an indoor / outdoor cat. It took me almost a month, maybe two months to finally come to terms with the fact that he was gone. I still think about him to this day. Honestly the best thing that you can do and it always helped me is that you can't dwell on the things you weren't able to do with your dog. Just think of all the good times you had and never forget that you gave the dog the life it deserved. Losing such a precious animal at such a young age is also not an easy thing to go through since you find yourself thinking about all the fun things you had planned for her when she got older, and now it's not something you'll be able to experience. From what I see in the picture though, you gave her a comfortable life and I know she would want you to be as happy as you made her. It will take time as these type of things always do, but never let yourself feel like you didn't do enough. I bet the dog was the happiest animal there ever was with an owner like you. If you need anyone to talk to to sort of get your mind off of things while you go through this, we're all here. Your dog is up there giving you the biggest doggie smile it could give you.

Isbjørn · 03-13-2015, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Thank you everyone, it's been a very hard day trying to process it. Everything happened so fast, she was fine this morning, it was the day she was going to get her stitches out from her spay, but there was some minor complications and she needed to go back under and get a few more put in and she never came out of it.

There's been so many emotions and feelings, but I am trying to remember that the pain of today will fade in time whereas the good memories that made up everything else will live on forever. That being said, I also can't help but feel cheated, she was only 18 months, and we only got to enjoy 14 of those months together. There were a lot of things we never got to do, like go hiking in the mountains and play in real snow. She won't be the last St. Bernard, or the last dog, but there will never be another dog like her, and it's hard to imagine waking up tomorrow and not getting to go out for my morning walk with her.

I am glad it wasn't dragged out, it was sudden and painless. She didn't suffer and she lived a life where she was never hungry, never cold, never scared, and was always loved.

I'm sorry for your loss, man.

The Batlord · 03-13-2015, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Thank you everyone, it's been a very hard day trying to process it. Everything happened so fast, she was fine this morning, it was the day she was going to get her stitches out from her spay, but there was some minor complications and she needed to go back under and get a few more put in and she never came out of it.

There's been so many emotions and feelings, but I am trying to remember that the pain of today will fade in time whereas the good memories that made up everything else will live on forever. That being said, I also can't help but feel cheated, she was only 18 months, and we only got to enjoy 14 of those months together. There were a lot of things we never got to do, like go hiking in the mountains and play in real snow. She won't be the last St. Bernard, or the last dog, but there will never be another dog like her, and it's hard to imagine waking up tomorrow and not getting to go out for my morning walk with her.

I am glad it wasn't dragged out, it was sudden and painless. She didn't suffer and she lived a life where she was never hungry, never cold, never scared, and was always loved.

****, dude, that's awful. I had the exact same thing happen to one of my dogs. I wrote a short essay for my English class that I think sums up the way I feel about these things. Hope it's meaningful or some ****.

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Having pets is the best lesson for enduring loss that I've ever had. Up until very recently, I'd never lost an important person in my life; my mother, grandparents, friends, aunts, uncles, and everyone else who has ever meant anything to me are all alive and well. I have however lost many pets.

Ever since I was a small child my mother has been an avid pet lover, collecting numerous cats and dogs, and even the odd hamster or goldfish. I'm an equally hopeless animal lover, and so each and every one has meant the world to me. Living among animals all day every day, you get a sense for their personalities, since no two are alike, making your relationships with the little critters unique in their own special way. They're family no less than your human relatives.

So when one of them dies, it is devastating. Knowing that you will never again see the dog who would bay at the top of her little lungs, and dance like the most awkward ballerina every single time it was dinner, or no longer have to keep chicken bones in the freezer until you put them in the outside trashcan because your stupid, awful, amusingly evil cat would knock over the bin in the kitchen were foolish enough to dispose of them there, it feels like a piece of your heart is gone, never to return.

It would be easy to let these losses sour you to getting any more animals, but when your new cat gazes up at you with that haughty, mischievous cat-look of affection, and meows at you with a voice which you'd never before heard in another of their kind, your heart melts, and you just know that a new friendship has just been struck. It's not that they will replace your fallen friend, but they will fill a new spot in your soul that you never realized needed filling. The human heart seems to have an infinite capacity to forge new connections, just as meaningful as past relationships, and I have all of my animals, new and old and soon-to-be missed, to thank for teaching me to never give up on human connections (even if they're technically not humans themselves, but that's a whole other debate).

Pet_Sounds · 03-13-2015, 06:50 AM

I'm so sorry, Pete.

You obviously gave her a good life over those eighteen months.

P A N · 03-18-2015, 09:17 PM

hey everyone. i don't come on here so much any more, but i thought i'd pop in to say hi, and introduce a certain Sequoia Mosey.

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RoxyRollah · 03-18-2015, 09:29 PM

Bro...^ sooooo cute.Welcome btw.

Edit: Welcome back.Fail.

Chula Vista · 03-19-2015, 11:36 AM

So truly sorry Pete.

LoathsomePete · 03-20-2015, 12:35 PM

I don't know if it's too early or whatever, but the breeder who sold us Amy was so saddened by her untimely and sudden death that she actually gave us another. Now part of the reason was she was kind of an accident puppy from a litter of 3 that was suppose to come from another male dog but his sperm just ain't up to snuff, so Amy's dad decided to give it the old college try. Regardless, here's Pink (possibly not her final name).

03-13-2015, 12:17 AM	#1771 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Really sorry for your loss Pete. I know how hard it can be. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

03-13-2015, 01:03 AM	#1772 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	Thank you everyone, it's been a very hard day trying to process it. Everything happened so fast, she was fine this morning, it was the day she was going to get her stitches out from her spay, but there was some minor complications and she needed to go back under and get a few more put in and she never came out of it. There's been so many emotions and feelings, but I am trying to remember that the pain of today will fade in time whereas the good memories that made up everything else will live on forever. That being said, I also can't help but feel cheated, she was only 18 months, and we only got to enjoy 14 of those months together. There were a lot of things we never got to do, like go hiking in the mountains and play in real snow. She won't be the last St. Bernard, or the last dog, but there will never be another dog like her, and it's hard to imagine waking up tomorrow and not getting to go out for my morning walk with her. I am glad it wasn't dragged out, it was sudden and painless. She didn't suffer and she lived a life where she was never hungry, never cold, never scared, and was always loved. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

03-13-2015, 06:50 AM	#1776 (permalink)
Pet_Sounds Remember the underscore Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The other side Posts: 2,488	I'm so sorry, Pete. You obviously gave her a good life over those eighteen months. __________________ Everybody's dying just to get the disease

03-18-2015, 09:17 PM	#1777 (permalink)
P A N DO LIKE YOU. Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 629	hey everyone. i don't come on here so much any more, but i thought i'd pop in to say hi, and introduce a certain Sequoia Mosey. [IMG][/IMG] [IMG][/IMG]

03-19-2015, 11:36 AM	#1779 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	So truly sorry Pete. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

03-20-2015, 12:35 PM	#1780 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	I don't know if it's too early or whatever, but the breeder who sold us Amy was so saddened by her untimely and sudden death that she actually gave us another. Now part of the reason was she was kind of an accident puppy from a litter of 3 that was suppose to come from another male dog but his sperm just ain't up to snuff, so Amy's dad decided to give it the old college try. Regardless, here's Pink (possibly not her final name). __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too