Pets

Oh geez...I would be nervous wreck caring for someone else’s deaf dog.

They probably make some small thumb sized chip for pets/children that you could hook onto his collar for remote locating. I know for sure you can have a vet chip them, but that's just creepy.

But it probably costs a few hundred bucks.

pharmakos said:

i've never bothered sealing my cat's food up in a separate container. am i a horrible owner?

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It's more for keeping out vermin and general organizational OCD.

Koushirou said:

Man, fuck today. Get a text this morning from my brother. His second GSD, Deacon, passed in his sleep overnight. They lost their other GSD at the beginning of the year. Both were wonderful damn dogs. My niece had just gotten over Sophie and now Deacon goes. Fucking sucks.

Get a call just now for the lady that I cat sit for sometimes. She had to put her cat, Cooper, down today as well. Boy was a goddamn sweetie and I loved going over to visit him. Was about to cat sit for him again next week.

Oh, and just heard from my fiance's parents that they just had to put down their second to last cat, Blondie. They've gone from 4 cats down to 1 in the span of a year (all of them were in their teens). Now it's just little Tiggsy, who's 23 years old.

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I had to google what GSD was. Never heard anyone use that for German Shepherd before.

Seeing your animals get older and start running into serious health issues blows. We’ve had Sadie for 11 years and she had a serious seizure yesterday morning. First seizure that we know of that’s she’s ever had. Lasted the better part of 3 minutes, doc is fairly certain she has a brain tumor and is trying to save us the $2500 MRI for nothing else but confirmation. We picked her up this morning after she was given a heavy dose of phenobarbital(the medicine she’ll be on the rest of her life) and an overnight stay at the animal hospital and she has been a disoriented mess since she came home. Doc says she’ll be hazy the next couple of days until the megadose fades but it is brutal seeing her aimlessly walk into shit and piss herself. Kids are beside themselves and I can’t stand seeing my dog fucked up like a college kid on barbiturates. If this doesn’t pass soon, fuck.

Sanrith Descartes said:

Had to put our cat down this morning. Apparently she had developed diabetes and since we didn't know to treat it she went into ketoacidosis shock. Pet ER tried to stabilize her but she was too far gone.

Thinking about it today it made me wonder if I am the only one who cares more about a pet dying than I do about a person dying. I really do care more about animals than I do the vast majority of human beings. My daughter is crushed

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I feel for you and I'm sorry for you and your family's loss. I posted our oldest dog Sadie earlier in this thread shortly after she was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, and this Sunday we officially hit 1 month since we had to put her down. It was the hardest thing my wife and I have had to do in 13 years and the element of having our children involved makes it that much harder. My almost 5 year old daughter constantly brings up how much she misses Sadie, how she wants to go to the "Rainbow Bridge" to see her, when we damn well know she's not coming back. The wife and I talk quite frequently about how the grief of losing Sadie is on a completely different scale then losing even some close family members. The best thing about animals is their ability to give you unconditional love, and as their owners it is our responsibility to reciprocate that love. When you lose that love and have to make the difficult decision to put them at rest it is devastating.

You're not alone in this feeling Sanrith and I feel for you. I hope you all the best in getting through this difficult time. If you ever need to talk DM me and I am all ears. Shit is gut wrenching.