My first dog. Had to leave us tonight.

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stesch_s10

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It is with heavy heart that I inform you and anyone who cares. That tonight my first dog ever as a child had to be put down. It's been 12 years since we drove 10 hours to get him. He was a spoiled dog, which in turn made him fat and happy. Almost a year ago he swallowed a peach pit and my parents took him to our family friend/town vet and he said you could do surgery or try some vasoline to see if it will pass. They tried the vasoline and after awhile he went back to normal. They never found the pit but imagined he passed it.
As of the last 2 weeks hes been sick as hell and after a week of meds they took him into surgery and found the peach pit from a year ago. Rotten, cutting him up and gave him a terrible infection. So tonight we decided to relieve him of his pain.

His name is Keeko, a Jack Russel Terrior. My first dog as a kid and lived long enough to be my dog as an adult. I miss you buddy.


First day we met him.
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That sucks i know how you feel although i try not to get attached to m y dogs for that reason i did have one not to many years ago who is on my avatar, that i really did like and wow could he hunt birds and knew how to handle them wow!! When he passed i thought well i will just get another one lol on my fourth or fifth one since and they are just average or below average compared to him man do i miss him in the field and his great personality .
 
Everyone here has felt the same pain you are feeling right now. The pain will ease with time and your fond memories will last forever. Those little terriers can certainly capture your heart and I'm sure you gave him a lot of love for those twelve tears.You guys did the right thing, and it will get better!
 
Very sorry to hear. When I lost my dog my cousin told me to go get another one and I did. It was great advice and I urge you to go get another one and take as good of care of it as you did this one.
 
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BritChaser said:
Very sorry to hear. When I lost my dog my cousin told me to go get another one and I did. It was great advice and I urge to go get another one and take good care of it as you did this one.
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What I have learned after practicing veterinary medicine for forty years is that stuff like this happens. If all our bag of tricks worked we would all live forever, but they don't and we don't. Something else I learned is that putting one down is one of the hardest things we will ever have to do... We do it for them! We do not do it for ourselves, because we would keep them forever if we could...We do it for them...It is the last KIND thing we can do for them. We as 'Owners" take their pain and hurt onto our own shoulders and say to them , "I'll hurt and you won't have to anymore." I think of it in a simple way as being what Jesus did for us, because he sacrificed his life to pay our debt of sin. A debt we were unworthy and unable to pay. He did it for us even while we were sinners. He did for us what we were unable to do. He said I will hurt and you won't have to. Maybe that is an oversimplification, but I believe it anyway.

I also learned through having outlived several of my own pets, that when I get another dog, it absolutely does NOT replace the deceased one in my heart! Each of us has an UNLIMITED supply of love to give, and when we give to another, the new will sit side by side in our hearts with the one that has "hunted on ahead of us". If you think about it, try to imagine that the dear departed can see you with the new dog, and he/she is somewhere out there smiling and saying to his pals, "Look there , he's got another pup! See I told you I did my job well! He could not keep me, but he wanted to and he got another one, because he loved me!"

Finally, one of the best things I learned is that the new pup serves as a reminder, every day, of the other dogs you have had or will have in the rest of your life! What a blessing in life I have had with the dogs I have shared my life with. I pity the folks who go through life never having loved nor been loved by, a dog. I am truly sorry every time I read one of these messages when someone has lost their friend, and right now I am shedding a tear with you, my friend, and thinking too of dogs I have known and dogs of my friends and clients. Many were diamonds to me. God bless you and go find another one! There has never been a pup that couldn't squirm up into your lap, lick your face, and not make you feel better! It is my prayer that God will bless you and all those who have lost a dog.


Bill
 
I'm late seeing this but wanted to say how sorry I was to hear about your loss of Keeko. Please get another pup.

Bill (Bknight), I really liked your response. And my tears are rolling as I think back to Drake, Morgan, Taylor and Logan. I like to think that Cody and Parker are honoring those four's memories.
Tom
 
A man's tears shed over the loss of a dog do not count against him, and it won't affect your "man card" at all.
 
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