Re:Re: Re: My council of experts.

[Guest guest]

My condolences to you and Don re the loss of your dog. It is gut-wrenching

when they get very sick in this way and decisions have to be made, but it is

the last gesture of our love for them and gratitude for their love of us that

we must do this for them. But when they go, they take a piece of our heart

with them. It's only right, they deserve that and more.

Lucille

In a message dated 11/20/2003 3:33:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,

Graduate-OSSG writes:

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> Tina was the last of 3 we rescued (separately) in 1992. All were adults. It

> marked the end of an era.

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> I am not a good home for a doggie right now. Have never NOT had a dog,

> actually. I can't give one the attention it needs. My staff and walk-ins

> gave her LOTS of attention, but she got only minimal (I thought) from me.

> Lots from Don. You can see the whole guilt thing going, right? She'd had a

> non-cancerous tumor for 3 yrs and we'd medicated her to the hilt,. as well

> as having the tumor made smaller (de-bulking, 3 times, I think) so she

> could eat with ease. I could not keep subjecting her to the anesthesia, and

> the pain never really went away, it just got better or worse.

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> Yes, it was very hard. But our dogless condition is not because we have

> loved and lost, but because we just are not a great place for dogs right

> now.

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> Thanks,

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