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Posted: 12/18/2011 1:04:45 PM EDT
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After a few requests, here is a tacked Memorial thread for our beloved pets.
Please, just the basics, who, what, when, where and why. |
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Hansan: "This is a .30 caliber, gas operated, clip fed, semi-automatic rifle....."
Soldier: "Look, you ain't sellin it to me, you're only showing me how it works." |
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Yesterday we had to put JD (Jane Doe), our 17ish year old Calico, to sleep. She had been battling hyperthyroidism for a long time, and it had really taken its toll on her heart (the hyperthyroidism), the kidneys (the medicine), and the rest of her body as well. She appeared to be having sight issues, and significant arthritis. Yesterday she took a fall on our stairs, and was having trouble regaining her feet. She couldn't even step over the rim of the litter box anymore. We took her to the vet yesterday afternoon and said our goodbyes. She went very quickly, just putting her head down and going to sleep.
Bye JD - I hope you had as much fun being around us as we did with you present. -shooter |
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You can give me money and I'll go make the zoo.
PA, USA
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Proud Member of Team Ranstad
9/11- Never forget, never forgive. http://www.friendstotheforlorn.com http://www.militaryworkingdogadoptions.com/ |
I am heart broken. I posted a few weeks ago about him having issues and got some great advice from a Vet on here. Well they thought it was kidney disease at first then follow up tests with a second vet earlier this week confirmed it was cancer. He may have only been 8 years old but i just could not bring my self to put him thru cancer treatment. he had lost about 20 pounds over the past month and a half and was begining to be unable to walk steady. It was time..thank you for watching over us while we slept. I will miss you Sherman..
First thread http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1273964_.html&page=1 Hug your dogs today. This were last night. over the past eight years. My favorite |
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Pro Patria Vigilans-U.S. Army Signal Corps
30th BCT "Old Hickory" Thanks, sigp226, for the NRA membership. |
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Originally Posted By Smiml7:
JoJo. Had him for 11 years. Had to put him down last month. http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx238/smiml7/229437_view.jpg Also, a couple of our horses jumped the fence yesterday and a drunk driver managed to hit three of them. Two had to be put down. Pics later OMG Let me guess, the drunk driver lived? |
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This thread makes me sad.
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(AKA Junior)
Gunsmith for ADCO Am I following all the right leads, or am I about to get lost in Space? |
‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure.
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"Just remember... all you do in life comes back to you" - Kamelot from "Karma"
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Originally Posted By Bklyn_Irish:
Bally (February 2000 - 9 June 2012) Named after the coastal town of Ballybunion, Co. Kerry, Ireland, not to mention one of my favorite pubs in Brooklyn, NY, Bally came into our lives shortly after the passing of my father. My Dad wasn't a "dog guy," and Bally was our first dog. Blind and deaf, Her hips were shot to the point that she could no longer get up without great pain. The vet came out to the house yesterday and helped us do the right thing. It has been fewer than twenty-four hours, and I miss her greatly. http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh126/bklynirish/facebook_336792531jpg.jpg http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh126/bklynirish/OfficeComputer182.jpg A Parting Prayer Dear Lord, please open your gates and call St. Francis to come escort this beloved companion across the Rainbow Bridge. Assign her to a place of honor, for she has been a faithful servant and has always done her best to please us. Bless the hands that send her to you, for they are doing so in love and compassion, freeing her from pain and suffering. Grant us the strength not to dwell on our loss. Help us remember the details of her life with the love she has shown us. And grant us the courage to honor her by sharing those memories with others. Let her remember us as well and let her know that we will always love her. And when it's our time to pass over into your paradise, please allow her to accompany those who will bring us home. Thank you, Lord, for the gift of her companionship and for the time we've had together. And thank you, Lord, for granting us the strength to give her to you now. Amen. - © Brandy Duckworth, 1998 RIP Sweet Bally. Awesome name. One of the wife and I's favorite shows was the Irish drama/comedy called "Ballykissangel". And awesome prayer as well. I utter similar words at the passing of every beloved pet. |
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"Just remember... all you do in life comes back to you" - Kamelot from "Karma"
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"Just remember... all you do in life comes back to you" - Kamelot from "Karma"
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Tennessee Squire Team Ranstad TIBTLS |
Can't talk...gotta shoot.
C.E. "Bud" Anderson. There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." |
"I'm not saying I will, but if I was to kill thousands of unarmed people who can't run I'd say Leatherface had the right idea."
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I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me and say "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals.
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There is no LOVE like the LOVE of your pet. May God bless your beloved Izzie. God has promised to reserect all animals after our reserection. Believe in God and believe in your Izzie as there will be a day when you and he will be together again. stanstey1 ( i too lost my partner Stanley, a beautiful and devoted German Shepherd Dog, who was killed at a traffic stop when a car ran off the road around the traffic stop)
RIP IZZIE |
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Mach
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is argument of tyrants. It is the creed of slaves.” William Pitt, 1783: |
Political correctness is the mistaken belief that a turd can be picked up by the clean end.
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Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'.
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Chrissy was 14 when we had to put her down a few months ago. I wish I would have been into hunting when we got her, but I was in gradeschool and didn't pick it up until I was a freshman in HS.
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Farfel, not your typical Beagle. He was about 40 pounds and was the most un-cuddly Beagle I ever saw. Would be just as happy to fight another dog as to play with him. Made some of the strangest noises I have ever heard. Dropped dead just shy of 12 years old.
href=http://imageshack.us/a/img829/6711/farfel.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us" /> Gus,Joe and Blackie. Blackie was Farfel's daughter. Joe (yellow Lab) was sick from day one, but made it almost 13 years, somehow. He had a series of health issues and seemed to lose the will to live and had to be put down. Blackie went a year later from Liver failure: http://imageshack.us/a/img802/6997/joeblackiegus.jpg Gus was a Pit Bull mix that lived to be over 14 years old. He had prostate cancer. When he was close to the end, we told everyone that knew him that he was a Pit Mix and they had survived hugging him. He never started a fight in his life. Amazing jaw power, "Finger amputatin' teeth", as a couple of vets said. I could put my hand inside that mouth and if I tucked my thumb in, not touch his teeth on either side. Orville was a cat found on our rental property and we kind of got stuck with him for 17 years. BIG cat, about 25 pounds. For years, he and Gus were best buds, until the dreaded "nut bite", and Gus never wanted Orville behind him again: http://imageshack.us/a/img193/3417/129819150372845385.jpg King was a giant pain in the butt sometimes, but to me, he's the greatest dog I ever had. http://imageshack.us/a/img152/6030/129819152319618537.jpg King and Molly were littlermates, some sort of Lab/Doberman, and probably Husky mix. King was the smartest dog I ever had. Molly only came to life in the back yard, where she was boss and anything with 4 legs was attacked. Mom and them all went in 2012: http://imageshack.us/a/img24/3659/129819159369553065.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img242/4992/pict0022bw0.jpg |
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<--------- Hero.
Our first pup. Lost him to Pulmonary Hypertension. Went from a healthy 10 year old lab that was still the occasional puppy to barely walking to barely breathing in about a month. My wife and I cried like babies after we put him down. |
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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
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I had to put my beautiful Bane down last August (the fluffy white and yellow one). He had kidney failure and dumping $800 dollars into him in a weeks worth of time didn't help. I sobbed like a baby. But couldn't bring myself to put him down for a few more days. Then I sobbed again and again. This cat would come to his name and suckle on my shirt even though he was 10 years old. The biggest love bug. Full of antics. Knocked everything off the table as he sprawled out. Loved boxes--even small ones. I still find his hair around the house. He had an easily upset stomach--so I had to clean him frequently--and he loved it. He even liked baths. He would get kitty chin acne. He had clogged tear ducts so his face was always runny with eye goo. I'd joke that he was the "bane" of my existence. He was clearly favored over the others. I couldn't help myself. The gray kitty is Szandor (aka Z-man). Bane's litter brother. Obviously from a different Daddy. Z-man was a manx. He had no tail. Not even a nub. He liked the quiet. He would not only come RUNNING to his name, he would speak (it didn't sound like a meow). He slept in bed with us every night, loving tight cuddles in your arms that would make him knead you...until he began to lose control of his bladder. A few months before Bane got sick, Z-man lost control of his bladder regularly. He would leak on all the furniture and beds. Luckily we have no carpets. We were told he wouldn't live to be 2 or 3 as a kitten....so being 10 years old was a good deal. He had a happy life. But after almost a year of washing blankets constantly, laying fresh ones on the chairs and couch, keeping all bedroom doors shut ...and not allowing him to sleep with us anymore...it was becoming unfair to him. He was at the point where he'd let his entire bladder go while sleeping and lay in it for hours. No medications helped. So this past April I put on my big girl panties and put him down. The two girl cats we have now are loving the extra attention. The mean one is being super sweet and lovey. I think she's scared I'll take her away and not return with her like the other two! lol Lord help us when it's our dogs. . . |
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Jake (full name- Jacobs Engine Brake Willey)
Yellow lab/golden May 1983-June 2003 Best friend I ever could have asked for. Not a day goes by that I don't think of him. |
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Building junk from other junk....
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