[HairOfTheDog]

Gak.. Oh dear... Remember Dona's old dog Zak? He was around at the wedding, I think, and probably seemed like he was on his last legs then... Well, he had hung on till now, but she had him put down yesterday.

Well, I started searching for just the right verse to send to her, and in browsing through the hundreds of dog loss poems there are out there, I've been bawling for over an hour for the love of old dogs... And I ended up sending one of my favorites that I always liked in the first place. But now I feel like I've been hit repeatedly in the gut and my eyes are puffy.

Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

[RosieCotton]

Aww... [[Hair]]

They do become sooo important to us, don't they? I still worry about my old lab and how things might have been different if I'd been able to have her with me rather than her being at the house. I don't know that she'd have been much healthier under my care, but...I think about it.

Same goes for the little ankle-biters. *sigh*

And yet, I still dream of the day I can have one again. I was looking at petfinder.org this weekend. I shouldn't do that.

[RMDupree]

*hugs* There's no easy way around grief, chica.

I can't dwell too long on memories of Dino, Pudgy or Tequila for fear I'll end up in that same state.

Stupid dogs. Why do they have to be so loveable?

Hermit crabs are better. Can't get too attached to them.

[Rose in RoseBear]

Oh, no! She adored that dog ... it was obvious to me, and I only met her once!

Please, tell her we're thinking of her ...

[osagebowman]

Sorry to hear about Zak. There is many of our dogs and cats in the field by the Rainbow Bridge. We'll see them again, hale and hearty, when we pass by that way. OB & LSA