[ottbmare]

I can accept and thank God for His will in everything except this: that He doesn’t let our dogs live longer. I hate saying goodbye to them so soon. What’s ten cruddy years? Why not let them live as long as we do?

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Good post.

[JoeProBono]

[BigEdLB]

I can accept and thank God for His will in everything except this: that He doesn’t let our dogs live longer. I hate saying goodbye to them so soon. What’s ten cruddy years? Why not let them live as long as we do?

Be they Boxer, Poodle, or German Shepherd

[rabidralph]

Because then you have to send them to college, buy them their first car, etc.

[Chong]

If your heart breaks into million pieces after 10 or so years, (as mine did after losing my special pup), how do you think you could handle our puppy dogs being with us longer when they go to the rainbow bridge??? We coudln’t handle it. God knows what He is doing...

[kaylar]

Because while you, I , and most freepers love and care for dogs, there are many pieces of two legged debris who leave dogs tied up to trees with no shelter and give them food and water MOST of the time, but who otherwise pay no attention to them ...There are monsters who enjoy tormenting them sadistically...It is horrible enough reading/hearing about dogs whose life on earth was 8-12 years of suffering and/or neglect, unloved if not outright abused...But if their lives were several DECADES of torment-????? It is intolerable to even THINK of helpless creatures suffering for a human lifespan. No, as much as I love my dogs, I am glad dogs don't live very long on this earth . :-(

(And bear in mind what dogs in moslem countries endure-!)