Spring is a kinder time for dogs and humans. I hope you and Boo make it to some special places this Spring.
I hope you're right, whooda. I'm hoping the same. She can't hike with me, but she'll come with me to the cape to see my parents. She can flop around in my sister's back yard with the kids. I wish so bad that we were back in GA where the best dog-park I've ever been to was.
Whew. I just gotta say that I'm glad, getting to the end of this thread I've never seen, that you still haven't had to make that decision. You're a good person, 'k, and on behalf of all the few handfuls of pound dogs I've been with when they've gone down, thanks for looking after her so well.
Thanks Pdog. She's pretty endearing - it'd be hard not to care for her well.
Yeah, I was looking at a picture of her showing her belly back there -- sweet little bald girl-dog belly...
<biggrin> she knows I'm thinking about her, she was looking at me when I turned around.
http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/herenow/2005/02/hn_0225.rm?start=30:29
will this link work? If it does, there will be audio of Robin Young talking about the prospect of putting her dog, Moe, down. (if it doesn't work, you can go to this link to find that link:
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/002055.html )
I cannae open it! (I've been having trouble with certain audio files -- I think ones that are designed for real player, which I don't have -- on this 'puter. I'll have to check it out on the wife's, and she's in NJ...)
ok.... it doesn't have the audio of her tribute after she put Moe down, but it does have her speaking about Moe. The more touching part of this audio is of a man who had an old dog in declining health and how he felt about that.
I'm listening to it right now. Man that is sad.
If you think that's sad, you should hear Robin Youngs sequel piece.
That is gonna be a tough part of the job. Maybe I should be a barista.
Pdog, that's one reason I'd never want to be a vet.
Oh, there's a bunch more reasons. That's more of a reason not to have a dog (or a kid, or a spouse, or to love anything at all). And clearly those reasons aren't good enough deterrents.
What reasons? Neglect, disease, abuse....?
You're right.
The horrible inevitability (unless one goes first) of their loss. That thing...
ugh, I found it. It's tricky, but if you really want to hear the piece go to the link below, click to listen to the show and then forward to the end of the show (drag the bar over to about 42:30 minutes into the program).
http://www.here-now.org/shows/2005/03/20050304.asp
Pdog - I meant what are other bad things about being a vet.
littlek, I was just perusing this thread and stumbled across that exeptional picute of you and your dog on the bed.
Hell of a nice photo.
I think I might blow it up and hang it on my wall. Would you mind?
