Posted on 02/24/2015 8:02:12 AM PST by God luvs America
The unsung heroes of your community’s police force are its capable K-9 unit. These talented pooches can serve alongside a police force for upwards of a decade.
As any pet owner knows, one of the hardest things in life is saying goodbye to your best friend.
Police in West Deptford, New Jersey had to do just that late last week.
Noted police dog Judge, who retired from active service in 2013, was given a hero’s farewell as he was walked into the vet’s office to be put down:
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Looking at those pictures was difficult. I don’t know how the officer kept it together. Certainly, he did it to spare the dog the concern for him, but I have no idea how he managed it.
Joe 6-pack has a similar story. His dog also spared him having to make agonizing decisions.
Cushings... The “barn hens” where we board the horse, and the wife works, cackle that phrase every time a horse has a sniffle or slight oddity.
Well, would you put your best friend to his death without knowing the precise extent of his ailments and without knowing that you were doing the best thing for him?
I can’t imagine how he did that either.
I have attended the deaths of four dogs and one cat, and I am reduced to a sobbing, little sissy every single time.
Even with the cat, and I don’t even like cats!
FTR- i input no keywords when i posted the thread...
the officer walking the dog in the third picture looks like he’s definitely crying/emotional to me..
First of all I doubt “God luvs America” when we have twice put an anti-semite in the wh.
Secondly, what’s with your key words? Is it paganism to love your dog? Animism?
as stated in post #26 i never input any keywords...
It’s our policy to honor our deceased pets by rescuing another. When we bring our new friend home I always say, “if you are half the dog (or cat)— insert name of deceased pet— was you will be perfect.
I have found that doing this is the only way to get past the pain of losing another.
It makes you feel good to know that you are doing something to help an animal that needs help, and that good feeling begins to fill the hole left by loss.
Yeah, I’ve got two rescue dogs one is now going to be 15 (shepherd mix) and the other is a 13 year old lab. They are in great health for their advanced age, but I know things could go downhill at any time. I don’t know if I’m prepared for that.
Oh, I knew it wasn’t you!
I agree; and the good dog himself is putting on his brave face, but definitely appears sad and anxious. A real pro, that dog. God bless him where he is, and the man who lost his excellent companion.
You can ask the mods to remove the offending words. I don’t know if they will, but it’s worth a try.
I’m sorry for your loss.
But the dog couldn’t have known he was going to the vet to die.
As for my cat, the vet gave me a price I could live with, and she’s in surgery to remove a cancerous growth. She’s not going to die today. But she’s still clueless how close she came to it.
I think dogs and cats are much more instinctive than people are and more so than we give them credit for. Their instincts are a much more developed sense than ours are. “Clueless” may be the appropriate adjective for people. But for dogs and cats, I don’t think so. I think they know many things that we don’t. But the problem is they can’t speak to us in order to tell us.
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