Pictures of your Dog

[MCFCTrick]

We’ve tried spaniel aid without success @MCFCTrick, @MouldensChippy i know which one you mean pal I’ve been looking at those they get them from puppy farms :( we go on holiday in October so might look in November when we come back I’d love to help out

We got one exactly like that in 2012. Berry, an English Springer. She was seven years old and had spent her whole life in a shed on a puppy farm.
Despite all that she was the sweetest girl ever. Our boy Goater fell in love with her on sight. She lived a happy carefree life until 2020, and I miss that beautiful soul to this day.

Seen here at her very favourite place ... a beach.

 

[Blue Maverick]

We got one exactly like that in 2012. Berry, an English Springer. She was seven years old and had spent her whole life in a shed on a puppy farm.
Despite all that she was the sweetest girl ever. Our boy Goater fell in love with her on sight. She lived a happy carefree life until 2020, and I miss that beautiful soul to this day.

Puppy farm wankers, I despair at those things

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Tried to upload an old photo but couldn't...imagine a Spaniel with long legs, long fur and a boy band hair do, that's Henry.....

Anyway, had to say goodbye to Henry last thursday and all extremely sudden....7.00 fed and out with the others along the river, no problems just his normal self, came back and I went off to work. 9.00 Wife phoned me to ask me to keep an eye on Henry as he wasn't acting himself. 10.30 came back and couldn't open the door so pushed and there was Henry slumped by the door, I grabbed a blanket to take him to the car and vets and whilst I was rolling him on to it he took his last breath...all very sudden. Vets reckoned internal bleeding or a stroke as his gums and tongue were white. He was 11, a spaniel / Spanish hunting dog cross and a bit of a twat !!!. We'd had him since he was about 4 weeks old when we lived in Spain, covered in ticks and was given to us by a Spanish farmer up the track who was going to shoot him, we already had 3 so I reckoned we could find room for another !!. He's now in a little wooden box with his name on a plaque next to Charlie.

RIP Henry.
I feel your pain mate.

 

[Dirty Harry]

Cooper R.I.P.
23:30 Mon 26th June.
Never reached his 2nd birthday.

Sorry I missed this too mate, I’d like to say it gets easier, and it probably does in a way, but I still miss my last one and think about him every day and it’s been a year, I clocked your second post about trying to get to the bottom of it so to speak and tbh I did that too as probably many of us do, all the ‘what ifs’ etc, but you could be there all day In truth and never truly get any kind of closure, I just work to the fact I gave him a good life, one that he likely wouldn’t have had otherwise, maybe that will help you, best wishes mate.

 

[Mancitydoogle]

Tried to upload an old photo but couldn't...imagine a Spaniel with long legs, long fur and a boy band hair do, that's Henry.....

Anyway, had to say goodbye to Henry last thursday and all extremely sudden....7.00 fed and out with the others along the river, no problems just his normal self, came back and I went off to work. 9.00 Wife phoned me to ask me to keep an eye on Henry as he wasn't acting himself. 10.30 came back and couldn't open the door so pushed and there was Henry slumped by the door, I grabbed a blanket to take him to the car and vets and whilst I was rolling him on to it he took his last breath...all very sudden. Vets reckoned internal bleeding or a stroke as his gums and tongue were white. He was 11, a spaniel / Spanish hunting dog cross and a bit of a twat !!!. We'd had him since he was about 4 weeks old when we lived in Spain, covered in ticks and was given to us by a Spanish farmer up the track who was going to shoot him, we already had 3 so I reckoned we could find room for another !!. He's now in a little wooden box with his name on a plaque next to Charlie.

Sorry for your loss mate, you saved him and gave him a great life.Unfortunately we only borrow them, I’ve got too many of those little wooden boxes but at least we’ve got the happy memories.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Sorry I missed this too mate, I’d like to say it gets easier, and it probably does in a way, but I still miss my last one and think about him every day and it’s been a year, I clocked your second post about trying to get to the bottom of it so to speak and tbh I did that too as probably many of us do, all the ‘what ifs’ etc, but you could be there all day In truth and never truly get any kind of closure, I just work to the fact I gave him a good life, one that he likely wouldn’t have had otherwise, maybe that will help you, best wishes mate.

In his short life with us we had a great time.
He was just a joy to watch running.
I work with the woman who asked me to take him in the first place.
It was hard explaining to her, but she was great.
She’s since got a cocker spaniel (easier to handle with a baby in the house).
She has been on to me saying she knows of a woman with an English Setter with 9 pups being given away.
Even waiting three months I think it’s too soon for me.
The missus and son think the same.
We’ve lost two in 20 months and it’s hard.

People who aren’t into dogs don’t get it but dog people understand.
Especially with the last one Cooper, who didn’t reach his second birthday.
It’s like losing a child and people saying to you, will you adopt another?
They are family members.

My son did up a wonderful collage for my 60th birthday.
I can look at the old lab Boey with fondness, but still find it hard to look at the top left picture of Cooper.

 

[Dirty Harry]

In his short life with us we had a great time.
He was just a joy to watch running.
I work with the woman who asked me to take him in the first place.
It was hard explaining to her, but she was great.
She’s since got a cocker spaniel (easier to handle with a baby in the house).
She has been on to me saying she knows of a woman with an English Setter with 9 pups being given away.
Even waiting three months I think it’s too soon for me.
The missus and son think the same.
We’ve lost two in 20 months and it’s hard.

People who aren’t into dogs don’t get it but dog people understand.
Especially with the last one Cooper, who didn’t reach his second birthday.
It’s like losing a child and people saying to you, will you adopt another?
They are family members.

My son did up a wonderful collage for my 60th birthday.
I can look at the old lab Boey with fondness, but still find it hard to look at the top left picture of Cooper.

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Totally get you bud, it definitely made it easier for me knowing I took mine from being on the ‘7 day waiting list’ for being euthanised (he was a similar age to Cooper at that time) to him getting to around 15 1/2 years old with me.

I kind of made a pact with him that I’d always look out for him and he would be a priority in my life no matter what, I guess in some way we all do, especially when we take on a rescue, if I’d have lost him after the time you had Cooper, I’d have felt exactly the same as you do mate.

 

[Bill Walker]

 

[mexico1970]

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That is one lovely looking pooch mate.

 

[mexico1970]

In his short life with us we had a great time.
He was just a joy to watch running.
I work with the woman who asked me to take him in the first place.
It was hard explaining to her, but she was great.
She’s since got a cocker spaniel (easier to handle with a baby in the house).
She has been on to me saying she knows of a woman with an English Setter with 9 pups being given away.
Even waiting three months I think it’s too soon for me.
The missus and son think the same.
We’ve lost two in 20 months and it’s hard.

People who aren’t into dogs don’t get it but dog people understand.
Especially with the last one Cooper, who didn’t reach his second birthday.
It’s like losing a child and people saying to you, will you adopt another?
They are family members.

My son did up a wonderful collage for my 60th birthday.
I can look at the old lab Boey with fondness, but still find it hard to look at the top left picture of Cooper.

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I am not what you would call a Dog person mate but I can understand the huge loss in a household when a pet dies, if you are an animal lover that means all animals.

Never got the idea that Cats have to compete with Dogs and vice versa, even though I would never own a Dog (Too much hard work and am a lazy bastard) I can see how they can fit into a family as one of their own.