Animal And Company: Re: [boxer lovers] Thoughts on handling putting a pet down

Whenn I had my greyhound rescues. Chili had been with Jake since she came off off the track att 18months. She was 9 when I had too put him down. When I took him to the vet I used his favorite blanket to lift him, I waited much to long to have him put down I juust couldnnt do it. Chili seemed to know by the smell of the blanket that Jake was gone. Normally she would run from window trying to get out if she didn't know where he was. Once he was on tv with my daughter I had to stay home from work to meep her from hurting herrself. When he died she started dleepping oon his blanket but she was calm

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On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 9:09 PM EST Lisa Wiser wrote:

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>When Pete was so ill and I took him to Purdue V‎et school hoping they could help, EVERY time I came home without him, Meggie looked for him. She'd check me out, look through the gate at the truck and then she'd search the backyard before accepting he wasn't with me.
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>Until the final day when the Vets called to tell me to come, now, and we made the decision he had no more fight left and I sat with him while he went to the Bridge. When I got home, Meggie didn't look for him. She did stick very close to me as we both grieved. I don't know she knew.
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>LisaW
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>From: karon
>Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2014 7:48 PM
>To: boxerlovers@yahoogroups.com
>Reply To: boxerlovers@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [boxer lovers] Thoughts on handling putting a pet down
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>First, PLEASE know I am NOT planning to put either of my dogs down any time soon. Sadly, though, my boxers are 8 and 9 years old. This means that this decision may soon be upon me. I hate it but I begin to notice my babies slowing down and more and more white creeping into the muzzles.
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>Anyway, I had read, somewhere, that, as we all know, dogs mourn dead members of their pack. I had also read that, if they are able to physically see and smell the dog which has passed on, they mourn les time. I had discussed with my family about the time to come when we will lose one of our dear boxers.
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>I told my daughter that when the time comes that one must be put down, I am going to take them both to the vet so that the dogs will be together to comfort one another. I feel that it makes sense to see that the surviving dog would acknowledge the loss of their packmate but knowing, for certain, that their packmate was gone, would not be searching for their packmate and watching for them to come home.
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>What do you all think on this topic?
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>Karon Adams
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