I have always had dogs. Bought this house 16 years ago and there have always been dogs here.

Had to put down my 15 year old Dachshund yesterday. Still not over that.

Woke up and had to collect her bed, blankets and bowls through cloudy eyes.

She was the last. House feels weird and empty today. Had to get that out.

Khalua. She was a great dog.

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She would say, dad, go an adopt another pup, please.

Sorry to hear this. She was a cute pup.  Hope you think about giving another dog a good home.

Sorry, OP.

I lasted a month before getting a puppy.

Same here....  A house is not a home without a dog in it.

You have my most sincere condolences.  A though for you follows:

Dad,
I know you still have plenty of love left in you.  Please share it with another of my kind.  You were a great dog-dad, and your love will be appreciated and returned if you just give another dog a chance.

Lots of love,
Khalua

you know Khalua is not happy there isn't another dog to watch over you the one she loves

Man, we never make it more than a month after losing one, and not having at least one around.

Puppy time!!

You folks are awesome.

Four year old granddaughter lives with us and she declared this morning “ we need a new puppy....or a kitty”.

Wife and I were thinking no more dogs but that’s not going to happen.
Going to adopt a puppy for the granddaughter to grow up with.

Murphy, Max, George, Bella and Khalua would approve.

Glad you’re planning on giving another pup a great home.

Myself, I can’t imagine life without a dog in residence. We were down to one for a couple years until we found the right puppy, and it seemed like our family was incomplete. Now, in the space of a year and a half we’ve gone from one to four. Two puppies purchased, and another one just showed up at the house yesterday. I like having four. It’s a good number.

Sorry for your loss.
Two dachshunds asleep next to me, snoring away.

Had many dog breeds before, never going back to any others, Daxies rule!

You've not lost a dog, you've just not found the next one yet...all we can do for them is give them the life they want to live, then repeat for as many times as we are able.
Hope another dachshund appears soon to take charge.

Sorry for your loss, OP. I just now rescued a dog after my buddy of 10 years passed on Memorial Day. I looked for awhile but wasn't ready.

Sorry for your loss. Every home needs a dog...

Also, tagging for puppy pics.

I prefer to get them in pairs myself.

The last time I took the current pair to the vet (their breeder also) to get some shots - I listed their names as 'Holy Crap' and 'Not Again' on the paperwork next to their real names. The Vet comes in to look them over and while looking at their paperwork 'calmly' calls their names out. "Holy Crap... Not Again..." she says. Neither dog even looks up at her and she commented about them not knowing their names. She told me I needed to work on that... Told her that they knew their names just fine but that she just didn't speak them 'correctly'.

Asked her to imagine coming in from outside to find the girls playing tug with her favorite jacket and say their names again...

At one point while there I made a comment about how I had forgot just how much puppies poop. The Vet laughed and asked me, "What, You don't have a poop eraser?"...

I replied, "Nope. Wish I did". Vet Lady says, "Hold on a minute, I'll go grab you one" - Comes back in short order and hands me one of these:



I did say something about how that was sort of small for the issues I was dealing with and she is 'supposed' to be getting me a few more in the proper size for Dobermans but this was all she had at the time...

Sorry for your loss.
I've always had at least 1 dog, currently have 3
I will always have a dog.
Grandkid is right, update with pics

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Started a new thread, forgot to just update this one.
This is Cookie, she is a Boxspring.
Officially she is my granddaughters dog??

Caleb approves

I've put two dachshunds down.  The last one hurt the worst as she was only 6 years old.  Smart as all getout, she had an autoimmune disease that came over her just months before she was put down.  
My first made it to 16 years, 5 months before suffering a stroke.

I made it about 3 months before my puppy came.  I can't imagine not having a dachshund in my life.
I remember putting the blankets and bowls away and how much it bothered me not hearing any noises in the house.

Go find yourself another puppy.



The black dachshund in the photo was adopted from a rescue.

Cookie will be named mush mush or something.

Only thing I know to bring a grown man down to baby talk is a puppy.

Awesome!

Sorry OP.