My best friend for around 15 yrs passed away tonight, I got her around 2009-2010 from the SPCA so she's had a good run. They had named her Mystique but I always called her Misty for short, we've had our good times and bad times but I wouldn't change any of it... really the worst of it I was able to crate train her but never could get her totally housebroken. I have some pictures from June 2010 so she was still just a puppy then. She's a hound/beagle mix and on a good day weighed around 45 lbs.
Just lost my best friend
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A good dog finds a place in your heart, that’s for sure. You can feel happy that you gave her a good long life.
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shes a beautiful girl sorry for your loss. I think about my Maggie everyday and this December will be 4 years.
sorry for your loss 
Thanks, she had stopped eating about a month or two ago and thought it was over then but she rebounded back but never was the same after. Her hips have really been bothering her but she was able to get around until late last week when she stopped eating again and was bedridden and was barely able to stand on her back end but she's had a good run at least.
She was shutting down, wouldn't take food or water and kept her mouth clamped shut so you couldn't get anything in there.
She was shutting down, wouldn't take food or water and kept her mouth clamped shut so you couldn't get anything in there.
Never met a dog I didn't like. Sounds like it was her time.
Very sorry for your loss.
Very sorry for your loss.
Have to say …. That pattern of action is exceptionally similar to older people as well.
We are so much alike it is really something.
Take care of yourself and when you think of your dog… Allow yourself to feel whatever it is when it happens. Doing that days, months, and even years later really does help us.
It's just so hard, I know that I don't have to tell any of you. You always know that day is going to come at some point and I'm not a very good planner anyways, was able to get the ball rolling for making plans for what to do. They don't want me to bury her here at the house but going to build a box and bury her at my dad's shop, also my brother offered me to do it at the farm. I'd much rather do it at the house but it's in town and you have neighbors, etc...
Sorry for your loss. Looks like she was a very happy girl who had a good long life. That’s the best you can hope for them.
Both the cats I had passed away to kidney disease, from what the vet told me it changes their taste buds so they'll eat something for awhile and then won't eat it. I think she knew it was time to go, dogs are a lot smarter than most people think. That is one regret I'll have is not taking her to the vet but honestly I've been down that road before, you're going to spend several hundreds of dollars if not more just for an examination, she's now 14-15 which seems to be the lifespan for dogs. I read online large dogs are 8-10 and small dogs are 10-15.
My condolences. A friend for life. I’ll pray for you and your family sir 
Pretty girl... I'm sure Misty had a great, loving life.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Gone through that also. Know how you feel. Tincture of time will help.
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I do miss my best friend ever (to the left) each and every day...... even 18 months after he passed. So the hurt you're feeling today will linger for a long-long time. Replacing the departed one with another puppy dog helps in the grieving process. There are tons of dogs in shelters today that need a good home and with provide you will loving companionship
Peace My Friend.
Peace My Friend.
You stated something here that is succinct but very powerful…
“It was her time”… I believe there’s a whole, whole, whole lot of truth in that in a number of circumstances.
I have seen a lot of people pass away… And I believe what you stated was true in a good number of those instances.
Has a side note….
I really sincerely like many of your posts on here. No doubt about that. You add a lot of very good thoughts, ideas and ways of thinking about things on here.
You may not have liked what I said in that other thread.
Understand that I see what I see and I understand things from a different perspective.
I knew over 2 years before my grandmothers passing away what would take her out of this world.. UTI and then severe sepsis… My aunt who was a CNA for 29 years told me what would likely happen. And o was learning about that type of science while I was in school at that same time. So it made perfect sense. I was not surprised when I went to Riverside Walter Reed hospital in my home county and looked at my grandmother and looked at her lab report and I knew her time was at hand. I told my own mother that the person she loved most in the entire world that there was no hope of recovery. And that is was time for her to be palliative care from that time going forward. Hardest thing I have ever had to do…
But I wasn’t surprised by it…
I watch my own cat Matilda and see how her dementia is having an increasing effect upon her… I love that cat dearly but I know what is going on and I know what will likely happen.
And watching her is so much like watching people with dementia it’s shocking. Amazing how much we are like those animals.
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The story of Old Drum best capsulates man's relationship with his dog. A worthy read, particularly Eulogy for a Dog.
https://scmo-hs.org/old-drum/
https://scmo-hs.org/old-drum/
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