~:~:~:The Doggie Thread!!:~:~:~

man of the prowler said:

hi nick.  i'm so sorry for your loss.  i've been thru the same.  i'll share a story if ok...we love animals.  currently 6 cats and a dog.  my wife is witchy, got a black cat.  fell in love, besties.  prudence was dealt a bad hand unfortunately.  kidney failure only a few years old.  we found out same day cc passed.  she fought for a while but passed away.  4 months later my father in law passed away.  rewind  to 2005.  my gf gets me a dog for my bday.  lucy. named after the awesome candlebox record.  my 1st dog as an adult.  my gf and i are like ross and rachael, off and on.  we had an off period, i had custody of luce.  she was my rock...rock, omg rock.  reconsiliation turned to marriage....we had stl tix in 2020, the show date was luce's bday, i knew it was her last bday.  i was ready to sell tix back but at same time this covid thing made me think itis gonna be postponed.  huntch of a pandemic made me hang on to tix.  i knew luce was getting bad.  my selfish self probably took too long to make the decision.  i knew what was coming.  i had the opportunity to tell her things, such as thanks.  i kept saying these certain words to her. ..lucy passed 7-12-20.  i'm grateful, so grateful.  at that moment i said those same words i said before..."i study your face, the fear goes away"...............2021...my dad passes away.  he was lucys's fave.                 i cried more about lucy than my dad, my wife cried more about prudence than her dad....i think something a pet does besides being a sidekick badass is maybe prepare you for the adult losses.  again, i'm very sorry

man of the prowler said:

too many drinks last nite, i missed my main msg.  it took a couple years but my wife got another black cat (scarlet) and she is in love.  around 6 months after lucy passed i saw a friend who had gone thru the same and had gotten another dog.  i mentioned i don't think i can ever get another dog and go thru that hurt again.  he said yeah it hurts but they sure bring you a lot of happiness while they're here.  i really thought about that.  shortly after a year of lucy's passing, we got a dog.  stella blue.  german shepherd.  omg i forgot how hard puppy training was!  and i also didn't realize gs's were crazy.  stella's 2 now and things are well, except that she terrorizes a couple cats.  it does get better nick.  right now you don't feel like it will, but it does.

side note, i'm quite a fan of the shoes you post.  i've started to collect a couple jordans myself, but far from your collection.  my wife teases me on how i pick out shoes for certain situations (it started one day when we got a call that a friend's mom had fallen and they were outta town, "emergency jordans").  that turned into funeral jordans, travel jordans, pj jordans, etc.           be well

nicknyr15 said:

I’ve lost my mom to cancer when I was 12 and my grandma to dementia, in which I was her primary caretaker, about 5 years ago. 

Last night I had to put my dog down and this is the most hurt I’ve ever been in my life. I’m ashamed to say that knowing about other losses I’ve been through but this, this is just different. It’s just way worse. He was 15.5 and only looked old the last two days of his life. I couldn’t have asked for a better companion. He did so much that I can’t even begin to type it out right now. I love you Stewie. 💔💔

nicknyr15 said:

josevolution said:

nicknyr15 said:

I’ve lost my mom to cancer when I was 12 and my grandma to dementia, in which I was her primary caretaker, about 5 years ago. 

Last night I had to put my dog down and this is the most hurt I’ve ever been in my life. I’m ashamed to say that knowing about other losses I’ve been through but this, this is just different. It’s just way worse. He was 15.5 and only looked old the last two days of his life. I couldn’t have asked for a better companion. He did so much that I can’t even begin to type it out right now. I love you Stewie. 💔💔

Please accept my deepest condolences on you loss! I felt the same way about putting down our Sparkels years back I cried for days she was such a great companion I miss her still, the one good thing we had adopted our pug Twinkie about a year before so she really was our comfort angel! I hope with time things get better and the fact that you feel such grief is a testament to how great a companion he truly was, be well my friend

Jose I appreciate your kind words so much. You’re are too kind. I can’t wait to finally meet up at a show. We’re putting a nice table up in memoriam of him. I’ll post some pics when it’s ready. And yes, we are doing better every day but there’s not a day that goes By that he’s not missed.