That is a cute AF dog there.

One of my favorite memories ever will be rolling up to the pet store on my motorcycle after a long ride with my doxie strapped on to it, hopping off, getting her neon pink lead put on her, and strolling into the shop.

From rescue to being a queen... LMAO, this little girl is awesome.

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Damn. Had to put out out 15 year old Cairn Terrier down January 2022. Wife died in her sleep the following August. Kinda quite around here. Sucks.

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Our little Doxie, Evelyn was the last to go, she was 17, the Border Collie, Hank and she were bro an sis, the other two were our daughter’s, Orson, Leroy, They’re all together now across the Rainbow bridge.


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Well, it looks like Fido is getting a change of diet.

Purina is completely revamping its production of dog food. Premium food sales have fallen off a cliff while their cheap food sales have increased substantially.

It makes me wonder what's happening with the brands that only sell "high quality" pet food.

My babies are well documented.

Not really, lets see them again

Update:

Had him at the farm last weekend and he was one happy dog. Was about impossible to find a moment where he was actually dry....

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Sometimes he seems to just show off. He'll stand there and pose. Snob.

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This one cracks me up because I didn't put him in a sit here. I was packing up the truck to head back home. He was NOT having it. Sat down in front of the bush and said "F-You. I'm not leaving."

Wouldn't budge. Awfully tough to get a good picture of black dog but that one came out pretty well given that he's just in full pout.

Beautiful head!
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Yeah, he was the pick of his litter. Breeder was going to show him or his yellow sister in the original post. If she wanted a male I was SOL. She decided to keep a female so I got him. Which is why I was willing to haul my ass to Wisconsin to pick him up.

We hit the jackpot with this one. Gonna be a looker and he's just a REALLY good dog. Hit every sweet spot on temperament. Couldn't have asked for any more out of him.

They’re a great breed, but when you hit the jackpot, it’s special.
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Luna is a year-and-a-half old Australian Cattle Dog-Catahoula Leopard Dog-Labrador mix. Born in South Texas, rescued in Austin, and now in the Rio Grande Valley.

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Checo cat is probably about one year old, and is a neighborhood cat who received his name during halftime of the Super Bowl; short for "Pacheco". (Isaih Pacheco then promptly kicked off 2nd half scoring with a touchdown run.)
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He says, "You're welcome for that comeback!"

That's a good lookin' pooch. :thumb:

I posted this in 2012. She died last year around November at 12 years old from cancer, still miss her :(

Thank you, she's awesome. We're making up for the love her original family couldn't/didn't provide.

I had to euthanize my American Bulldog mix a few weeks ago. He went into liver failure back in February but bounced back with some antibiotics and liver meds. His liver failed again a few weeks ago and , apparently, he was too far gone before he became symptomatic. He likely also had hemangiosarcoma based on a tumor they found on his spleen. It’s definitely the hardest part of having pets. My sincerest condolences, brother.

ETA- ‘Deegs’ was his nickname. His name was Diego because I was born in San Diego

Put our cat down today. He made it to 18, so it's hard to feel anything but incredibly fortunate, but the house sure feels empty.

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Sorry to hear, DaFace. Our dog is getting older and I already know it will be the worst day of my life when the time comes.

Sorry to hear that. Give it a bit, then get back in the saddle.

Damn man, so sorry to hear that. We had 2 kitties from the same litter that lived to be 18 and they died within 2 weeks of each other.

18 is a nice long life for a cat. They don't make it that long without being very happy and well cared for. RIP.

Sorry for the loss of your beautiful cat, DaFace.

That's crazy and must have been incredibly hard. Our siamese cat lived until 16 or so but passed back in 2020, so we were just happy that our old man held on for a few more years. We still have our young (5 year old) cat at least, so that helps a little, and we'll probably think about adopting another soon.

It's just crazy how, even though they have relatively short life spans, our pets can be present for such major periods of our lives. We adopted Cid (the one in the photo) in 2007 when he was about 1.5 years old. I was barely out of college at the time, and now I'm fully in the peak of my career and starting to creep up on middle age. We damn near had the guy for longer than I lived with my parents growing up.

Time heals and all that, and I'm happy we got all the time we did. It's definitely a tough day though.

Wow, just read on FB a guy lost his 6-year old dog due to an embolism after a leg amputation surgery.

Take care of your pups and get them quality medical care.

Mr. Copper turned 2 this weekend. :)

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Had to put down my little buddy down late Monday night. Bobcat fever is a bitch disease for cats. Its crazy how you don't realize how much their company is, until they are gone.

Sorry to hear that, pets are so important to their human's lives...

Condolences, man. I've made that decision twice in the past five years, and it just plain sucks.

It was tough. It's really tough for me because my cat was young. He was perfect cat - great temperament and loving. Had the real potential to be 10 year+ type pet.

really sorry for your loss

cats can be wonderful friends

Sorry for your loss. I'm not a cat person, but I get it.

I saw a meme with an ACD today that made me remember your doggo.

"An Australian Cattle Dog is just a Belgian Malinois that smokes unfiltered cigarettes, drinks bottom shelf whiskey and lives in a single wide..."

I...uh...think that checks out.

Well, we made it to 13 adopt-a-versaries. We will not make it to 14.

We let Scott the Dog go yesterday. It was awful and wonderful.

His arthritis was controlled pretty well for a long time... about 5 years... we maxed out his meds dose last year and then started trying a new treatment (librela - shot) that was expensive but highly effective in July. For July, August, and September, our little buddy's clock rolled back again. Lots of walks, lots of excitement, lots of him coming down to work in the basement with me.

And then, about three weeks ago, I noticed that he was just not moving around the same. I checked, and it had only been two weeks since his last librela injection.

My wife noticed it, too. We started watching him. Tried a week making sure he was getting the max dose of his medicine and OTC stuff he could have, to see if it helped. It didn't.

He was having a hard time walking, a hard time breathing (working really hard). Then we started noticing his alertness dropping, his energy. I made the calll to the vet on Monday, and we took him in yesterday.

Saying goodbye was hard. And awful in some ways. But gosh, when I think about how he loved us, how sweet he was and what a good comfort animal he was (he missed his calling as a trained comfort dog/therapy dog, for sure), and about the good life we gave him, it helps. My kids are a little wrecked... the girl just misses him and doesn't want him to go (she has taken a lot of pleasure in sliding above me in his pecking order, right behind her mom). The boy just is having a hard time dealing with the change.

We'll take some time and probably get on the puppy train again next year. My wife has a connection who has a trio of golden retrievers who have not been fixed, who has a litter coming up in January.

Cheers to Scott the Dog. It was my honor to be your human dad. Thanks for being our buddy.

Ugh, sorry for your family's loss, DI

RIP Scott the Dog

Poor Scott :(

Losing a pet sucks

Sorry for your loss DI, but he lived a good life with a family that loved him. He gave and got joy, and that's what's supposed to happen.

Mourn the loss, get back in the saddle.

Sorry to hear that di. All these dogs are special, it sounds like he was a bit more special than the rest.

Dude is a tank in the snow. 3 years old now.

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I am a Dog person but now feed 2 feral cats.

Just got back from the emergency vet. Our sweet boy Charlie(a cat) started eating a bit less and behaving oddly about two weeks ago. We took him to the vet and everything looked ok besides a little inflammation on his small bowel. We thought it was something he had eaten.

About a week and half later the dr found a mass the size of a baseball on Charlie’s stomach. It went from undetected the first time to baseball size that quickly.

That was Wednesday and vet gave him Prednisone shot Thursday to give us a little more time with him. He got so bad yesterday we have put him down this morning.

We are heartbroken to the point where even the Chiefs win yesterday was tough to enjoy. Maybe I’ll upload some pictures later.


I am just mindblown that a tumor grew that fast in our best friend :(

Sorry to be all depressing but I had to write this down somewhere. **** cancer

For some reason I cant post a picture but I had to put my dog of 16 years (a yorkie poo), Lexi, to sleep Friday evening. I watched the Chiefs game with an extremely heavy heart yesterday. Truly one of the hardest things I have ever had to do.

RIP

It sucks

LB or the Full Name, "LineBacker".

So sorry to hear this, but glad you were able to do it here where pet lovers will understand and console you and yours..

And yes, **** CANCER!

Sorry to hear this man. We've been fortunate that we've usually had time with our cats. I can't imagine something coming in so suddenly like that. Take care and try to think of all the joy they brought to your life.

(Assuming it's something you want,) take solace in the fact that your next buddy is out there somewhere waiting to be adopted. Every sad loss is an opportunity to give another pet a good home.

My cat disappeared just before Christmas last year. My hope is that someone captured him and converted him to an indoor cat. I still put out food, and the raccoons have amazingly shiny coats.

I lost my Starbuck today. Apollo (the cat) is very confused and misses his buddy.

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Ugh sorry to everyone who has lost a pet recently

Our cat is getting old and we've got him on Gabapentin daily so he doesn't lick wounds into himself. Its kind of an "eyeball" amount in his food and sometimes it hits different and he gets really high off it

On Friday I was prepping some bacon wrapped potato wedges, went outside to check my smoker and came back in to him up on the stovetop eating a whole ass potato LMAO

So now we've been calling him Tater

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Kcuniteds post reminded me I have a question. My 14 year old Brittany has to take apoquel in the summers to keep him from licking and scratching bald spots. Anyone know an alternative to prescription? I’ve constantly got stuff in my socials news feed like something from a company called dogs are humans that is supposed to be an alternative. Wondering if anyone has any experience.

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Fishels and lifer, sorry to hear about your pets. I hope you can find comfort in memories of your good times with them.

This thread, sometimes difficult to read, reminds me of how good the people of CP are.

Cats>Dogs>Feral cats>Untrained dogs

walk away and he steals your heated blanket wtf

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Thank you both so much! We are still absolutely stunned and shocked at how quickly he was taken from us. But in a way we are glad we won’t be having to make any tough decisions about Chemotherapy, surgery and all that terrible stuff.

We picked up his ashes today and they gave us a Two boxes… one with ashes obviously…… but then a surprise one that had his paw print preserved in it. Like a mold. Needless to say there wasn’t a dry eye in the room.


Hoping for a win today for all our fallen pets in the kingdom


It was my parent’s cat but I lived with them for the majority of its life. I was able to find a 4 week old kitten in October 2022 standing on the side of the road completely abandoned. I opened the door and he jumped right in. The rest is history! :)

I’ve certainly been hugging him extra tightly lately. You just never know

Aww he’s so cute.

So sorry for the loss :(

As a side note the cat is very pretty. He’s going to need more attention now

That's momentary, it'll fade quickly.

Reminds me why I pet more dogs than I compliment people...

Ope
 

My wife’s new long hair weiner dog Paulie, showing her how much he loves her.

Big Papi is ready for the game!

Had to put my 12YO, Apollo, down today. He developed a massive infected growth on his hind leg (which you can see in the picture) that got so big that the vet thought it was likely cancerous, felt that amputation of the leg was the only viable option, and that even the amputation might not save him. Between the massive cost, the reduction of life quality, no guarantee that it any of it would work, and his age, it seemed like the best course of action. Which doesn't make it suck any less.

Also sucks that the first vet we took him to nearly three weeks ago basically did nothing but fleece us for $700 (an ineffective antibiotic shot and a non-conclusive test) then basically kicked the can down the road and told us to take him somewhere else. ****ers. I'll never go back there again.

Anyway, what's done is done. He was a needy, neurotic pain in the ass, but I sure will miss him. :(

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Condolences, man.

Shit, thats tough Frazod

RIP Apollo

Anyone have anything cuter than this? My daughters female mini daschund, Linny.

Sorry, Fraz.
Good looking cat. RIP Apollo!

We're likely looking at making a tough choice with our 17-year-old orange boy on Friday. The wife is a mess.

Mine took it much better than I expected. I figured she'd insist on the surgery/extended treatment, but she saw the futility of it.

Of course, it probably didn't hurt that this cat was 100% mine. Other than howling at her every morning to fill the food bowl, he ignored her completely. :D

Sorry to hear that Fraz. Shitty thing to happen to him and you.

Had a vet (he was filling in for my regular guy) pull the same crap on me a while back. Fortunately, my regular vet made it right with me when he got back from vacation.

I'll enter my boy, Ro, in the contest. Forgive his lack of modesty - sleeping with his (lack of) balls in the air is kind of his thing.

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Let's see her when she's bigger. Big Papi was definitely that cute when he was a pup.

Dude our stories are similar. We went from diagnosed (Wednesday) to dead that Sunday. So no time to even plan or discuss treatments


Cancer is awful. I’m so sorry

Here's a shot of Papi I got the other day...

Sorry for your loss, man that's tough...

The big one, Ashley, making sure the pillow doesn't get away..

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Pets are the greatest. People who love and care for pets are a close second.

My heart aches for anyone who has recently lost a 4-legged member of their family.

Thanks for all the kind words. Looking at that picture just breaks my heart, knowing that he was dead about three minutes after I took it. The way he was looking up at me, scared and in pain and wanting me to fix it.... ****. :(

Sorry for you loss, Frazod.

It happens but it hurts
 

I have been reluctant to even post about my girl. She left on her own terms Dec. 3 crossing the bridge. Only 8 + change, AKC Black Lab. Good girl. Two weeks prior I had taken her to the vet for her yearly check-up and shots. Everything checked out OK, near $500 for the bill. Then on that Tuesday morning in December she let out a howl and I went to check on her. She looked at me, laid down, put her head down in my hands and took two last breaths. Tore me up. But it's not my first rodeo at my age. I want another puppy but I am waiting for spring. House breaking a pup in Mid Mo at 3:00am in February sucks, been there done that.

Sorry for everyone's losses. Can't believe how many of us are losing our pets all at the same time.

Sorry to hear. It’s tough losing a pet, even the needy neurotic ones.
I lost my outdoor cat pal in September. Hell of a good cat and great fishing buddy.
Saved her out of a storm sewer from work as a kitten and took her to the vet. Vet said she was a she but later it became apparent she was a he so we called her our TransCat mockingly.
She must have got into some poison or bad food. Went missing for a couple days and so I went looking for her. Found her barely alive by the lakeshore and got her to the house and cared for her the best I could. She was dead next day.
She had had big personality and the whole family misses her/he TransCat

I've been there, but I'd offer this, he was in pain and wanted to be with nobody else when he grew his wings. No time soon, but you'll see him again, and he'll be 100% and ready to scratch the sofa and hand out some skippty-paps to make you laugh.