I feel so guilty for not being in with Paddy when the vet put him to sleep ,we spent a few minutes saying our goodbyes he was aggitated and just wanted to escape bless him ,so we agreed it was for the best that the vet take him into another room while we slipped out of the door,now i,m not so sure ,was he ok ? how did he feel ? i feel that we let him down, does he know that we love and miss him so much,the house feels empty,so many little reminders,coming home to a empty house with no boy to greet you wagging his tail, he should be with us, he should be in the garden he loved,he should be getting his lead ready to go to mum,s today with us,he should be playing us up and trying to nick our dinner,i hope he knows that what we did we done out of our love for him,we could have kept him for a few more days but then would the tumor have burst he would have had a horrendous death then,so we decided to do it before the pain came he was happy and still playing with his ball ,but the guilt is still there,just want our boy back ,love you lots Paddy God Bless x
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Ah Racheal sorry for your loss also,it,s heartbreaking when it happens,we picked up our boys ashes last week and his casket is in the living room he loved and my staffie Kayley is in the diner on the dresser they will both be comeing with me when i go as they was such lovely faithful friends ,bless all our faithfull friends and let them play happily together the otherside of the rainbow ,love Linda x
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I know the pain you are feeling, i had to have my dog put to sleep last week, she was 17yrs old and had a tumour on her neck which had grown and stopped her being able to swallow. I could not take her to the vets myself as i was too upset so my hubby and his dad took her down. My husband has gone back down to the vets today to collect her ashes.
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Oh Tracey i,m so sorry hunnie 17 bless her,just look for the signs hun i,m sure she will let you know she arrived safetly just like our boy did with the rainbow,we got a little pup the week after the best thing we done i hated the house and wanted to move,some people might say it was too soon but it was the best thing for us as he helped take our dreadful pain away,when my staffie died i got our boy a week after,i love all my animals the same and never compare them as they all have their own little personallities of course i still miss him and my staffie and the cats and i always will it,s only natuaral and i can still see him about the house,but could i wish for our boy back to go through the terrible pain of bleeding to death at some point ,no of course i couldn,t,you had to do that last act of love Tracey just the same as we did how ever much it hurts us it was the kindest thing for them hunnie i send you a big hug love Linda x
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thanks, 2 days after she died my son reckons he heard her breathing in the dining room where she slept, she always had a habit of going behind hubbys chair and lying there. Well it was about 10pm and i sent my teenage son downstairs to get a bulb from the kitchen, he said he entered the dining room and heard breathing exactly how suki use to coming from behind hubbys chair, he casually walked out of the dining room and ran upstairs shaking. We have her ashes here now in a wooden casket and it was upsetting to see but im glad we have her here with us and not buried up the garden. I still have her bed in the dining room but cant take it out just yet.
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They will let us know whatever way they can Tracey i,ve still got all paddy,s toys in binliners out the back can,t give them to the little one cos they was our boys his collar and lead are in a bag in the kitchen drawer along with my staffies can,t look at them hun so i know exactely how you feel they are a huge part of the family and give you unconditinal love no matter what,with us through the good times and the bad i know mine did x
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