Rescue Dogs,

[whoisit]

Those of us who get new pets after saying goodbye to our long-time friends have decided that the joy of having them for 15 years is stronger than the grief of losing them. Each person decides differently.

I’ve always gotten a new pet after I lose an old one, usually within several weeks, and always from a rescue or shelter.

I agree, I look at it like this, we stopped a lot of suffering in whatever life they had left, most had a very long life.

 

[Ava]

Those of us who get new pets after saying goodbye to our long-time friends have decided that the joy of having them for 15 years is stronger than the grief of losing them. Each person decides differently.

I’ve always gotten a new pet after I lose an old one, usually within several weeks, and always from a rescue or shelter.

The way I help myself deal with the inevitable as I notice their time on earth is looming, is by adopting another 4-paw before I have to cry a "goodbye--thank you for all the love and good times."

I found by doing that, their playtime extended the life of the mature one, but when it ended I still had a loving one I had come to appreciate and adore. It helped on the grief meter and brought to my heart sooner than later those precious and fun memories of the aging one. All of them that have gone over the rainbow are in my mind and heart right now as I revisit their sweet faces. And yes, swelling, tearing eyes. I have been so fortunate with pets. They all knew and felt like family.

 

[whoisit]

Thank you. I just gave to a good home out litter precious kitten we found here in the woods because I'm allergic now. Also afraid one of the dogs would kill her, Leo has already killed 2 of our hens.
She was so cute, hubby really wanted to keep her. We named her Sheba.
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Sheba got a great home with a couple who have 2 cats, the lady who is a dog groomer at local pet store said Sheba rules the house.

Click to view the picture.

 

[Lisa558]

The way I help myself deal with the inevitable as I notice their time on earth is looming, is by adopting another 4-paw before I have to cry a "goodbye--thank you for all the love and good times."

I found by doing that, their playtime extended the life of the mature one, but when it ended I still had a loving one I had come to appreciate and adore. It helped on the grief meter and brought to my heart sooner than later those precious and fun memories of the aging one. All of them that have gone over the rainbow are in my mind and heart right now as I revisit their sweet faces. And yes, swelling, tearing eyes. I have been so fortunate with pets. They all knew and felt like family.

That is such a wonderful way of easing the transition for you, and, as you say, extending the life of the older one.

I imagine that would work with dogs. With cats, the “break-in” period of introducing a new cat can stress out the older one, and actually make it worse.

For my previous two (before the two I have now), the first one died just two weeks before the other was diagnosed with what I was told was an aggressive cancer. I was told it was a matter of months, so instead of spending her final months trying to adjust to a new kitty, I decided to let her live out her remaining days with just me, free of stress, and then I would get two new ones, together.

It turned out that she lived four good years after that, and she wasn’t uncomfortable until the final week (which I helped end). The vet told me that the number of kitties with her stage of cancer, at diagnosis, who live four more years is less than 1 in 1000.

I like to think that she loved me, and the home I gave her, so much that she wanted to stick around.

 

[whoisit]

Remember I said we needed a couple dogs that would bark and watch the place?
We got 2 great ones, I was surprised the Goldie Massie would be so watchful.
Getty acts like she was trained to guard, and that muscular dog goes off on anyone that pulls up. Yet when the family visits she just sit's and watches, where Maissie the Goldie wants a rubdown from everyone.

I didn't tell y'all that these 2 dogs both had food names, kind of weird since they came from shelter. Spagetti and Maize aka corn. So I shortened them down to Maissie and Getty. It worked. Sometimes they look at me like , 'can't you talk plain'.

 

[whoisit]

That is such a wonderful way of easing the transition for you, and, as you say, extending the life of the older one.

I imagine that would work with dogs. With cats, the “break-in” period of introducing a new cat can stress out the older one, and actually make it worse.

For my previous two (before the two I have now), the first one died just two weeks before the other was diagnosed with what I was told was an aggressive cancer. I was told it was a matter of months, so instead of spending her final months trying to adjust to a new kitty, I decided to let her live out her remaining days with just me, free of stress, and then I would get two new ones, together.

It turned out that she lived four good years after that, and she wasn’t uncomfortable until the final week (which I helped end). The vet told me that the number of kitties with her stage of cancer, at diagnosis, who live four more years is less than 1 in 1000.

I like to think that she loved me, and the home I gave her, so much that she wanted to stick around.

Oh so sorry ,at least she was loved and had a good life.

 

[whoisit]

Foxy and Leo with us on the boat on the Suwannee River a couple years ago.
They would love to jump in but the gators would get them, so no swimming in this part of the river.
O love going down the river, so much rain and storm cleanup no river trips in a while now.

 

[whoisit]

What do you do for that? Poodie started on diuretics three weeks ago for congestive heart failure which means she wants to go out every hour and half. We have pads out for errors and don't mind that. The getting up at night is hard though.

Poor thing, so kind of you to care for her.
We have a female with 7 pups running in the woods chasing deer and their baby's, I feel so bad but can NOT take care of anymore animals.
Pups now are getting to age to go into heat ,so soon more unwanted pups ,so sad.
They keep digging under our fence. They may have already killed one of the baby deer born here.

 

[whoisit]

So far all 4 are doing great. Amazing that a couple of them at times help me teach the others. Like today I told Leo and Getty "OUT" and Masie came up and pushed them back. She has trained Leo the badly abused neurotic one, to stop jumping on us several months ago.
Leo's sister Foxy likes to instigate fights with the two large dogs, Maisie and Getty, who were very hard for hubby to separate.
Foxy is a spoiled little agitator.

 

[buttercup]

Look at the difference in the before and after.

 

[whoisit]

Look at the difference in the before and after.

Looks like she has some Dogo Argentino in her, pink dots and large eyes, white hair, also have very pink skin.

 

[whoisit]

A few months ago we took the two new dogs to the river to let them see the water, not good on a lease, so once near water they jumped in almost pulled us in too.
This river has lots of gators and snakes in it, so we had to pull them out fast, thank goodness they were on a lease.
Hubby put two eye bolts on each side of the boat to restrain them when we take them on boat in next few weeks.

People fed them ,make them dangerous