Final good byes for Sandy the pooch

[Blazewind]

Tomorrow our old family dog Sandy, is booked in to be put down. He just turned 17 last month, and is finally after all this time in his long life, showing such great signs of age that my mother and I together made the choice to have him put to sleep. He has been having some trouble getting around for several months now, but never seemed bothered by it, as it was noticable,but not too bad for him. He has been having accidents in the house, and is losing his vision and banging into walls, for the last year, but again, was always a happy old boy. In the last few weeks though he has begun to get so much worse and has started to look like he wants to give up. Last week someone kicked the gate down at their house,and Sandy got out of the yard. My mother phioned me and I went over to her naibourhood to help look for the dog, who we never found, but who was luckily later picked up and sent to the pound. When I took my mother down to retrieve the dog, we discovered that his health had taken one last turn for the worst, and he could hardly stand at all, and was wabbling on his feet and falling all the constantly. We got him back to my mothers house, took him out of my car, and put him down on a dog blanket, while we spoke about the inevitable decision. We decided to give it a couple days because he had been laying on cement all night at the pound and may still improve a bit in hte warm house. We also feared though that he would not last he weekend. Their was however not much we could do over the weekend,and thought to take him in to be put down if he was still alive this week. Well he did survive the weekend, and ever got a tiny bit better. Still though it is beyond the piont that he should be kept alive, as he does seem to be suffering and losing his dignaty. We feel that we have made the right choice for the poor old guy, and so tomorrow I have agreed to drive my mother and Sandy to the animal hospital.

Sandy was my grandfather's dog. He got him as a tiny little sand brown colored ball of fluff, when I was only eight years old. The family's first memories of Sandy were of him getting into the upstairs bedroom at his house and pulling the sheets into a big heap in the middle of the bed. My grandfather's poor guestroom constantly fell victem to puppy havoc. He out grew his puppyhood though nad my family moved out of the provence. By the time we returned many years later to live, the dog was already going grey around his nose. He managed to live for many more years though, surprising all of us by out living my grandfather, and becoming my mother's dog. We are all shocked that he has lived this long and only begun to seem so old in the last half a year or so.

I'm sorry for such a long post. I really didn't mean for it to be this long. I suppose I just wished to write a memoreal to Sandy. I was also hoping that some of the members would be willing to send energy and blessings to the dag, on his journey to the next world, and also your heeling energies to my mother and my sister, who is just a few months older than the dog is now, and has grown up with that dog.

Thanks for taking the time to read all this.

[hedge*]

(((((((((((((((((((((HUGS BLAZEWIND)))))))))))))))))))))

I know how you're feeling hun, it is never an easy decision to make but you are making the right choice.
It sounds like Sandy has lived a wonderful loving and full life and he knows it's his time to move on.

I will light a candle for Sandy and for you and your family.

[Blazewind]

Thanks for your understanding, Hedge. If you could light a candle for the dog and us, that would be most wonderful. I myself plan to do something tonight to wish him well on his way too. I light a candle as well. I am trying also to get a picture up on here of old Sandy if anyone is interested. I was having trouble figuring out how on earth to post a pic though.

[Sobek]

you need to upload the picture, I use www.imageshack.us and others use www.photobucket.com ... whichever I guess.

after you upload the pic you copy the Direct Link and then you past the link like this

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[img]past link here[/img]

I will also light a candle for you. Sad times. Be well Blaze.

[LUNAAMOR]

im sorry about your loss i know how it feel to lose not a pet (because for me they had never been my pets) but something so dear to you .
last year on this same month my precious(my chihuahua) camila past away. and im still grieving . i will do the same thing im going to put a candle for you and your family.
take care

[Blazewind]

Thanks guys.

[Blazewind]

There we go. I finaly managed to learn, thanks to Sobek's nice and essy to fallow instructions, how to get a pic up on here. This picture of Sandy was taken abound a year ago, at my mothers house. Sorry about the bad lighting. It seems that alot of pics I took there have poor lighting. I have very few pictures of the dog, and the rest were worse.

[LUNAAMOR]

that's a beautiful dog.

[Kolohe]

He is gorgeous. Maybe it already happened by now, hope he went as peacefully as possible. Sounds like you took really good care of him. Off to light a candle.

Kolohe

[Blazewind]

He was put down yesterday morning. But yes, he went very quickly and peacefully, which is very good I think. He lived at my mothers house, which is on the other side of town, but yes they took great care of him. That dog, as well as her other dogs were all spoiled, and cared for.

[mothernature]

i am very sorry for you and your mothers loss. i had to put my girl down do to cancer last year. i still can't think about her without crying, even though i know she is waiting for me to come and play. i send my thoughts to you and your mother.

[sunstoneleo]

I am sorry to hear that. I have lost many pets in my life. One just recently, my foster mom (I just moved out of her house in June after living with her for 3 years) Just put her cat down. It was sad to see, but to know they are in a better place now is comforting.

[Makbawehuh]

*Huggles, cries, late reply*

I"m so sorry you had to put him down... It's hard, having to go through that. It's hard to lose someone you love that way, and harder still to know you had to make that decision.

*cuddles, offers condolences*