I know how you feel. We lost our brand new 3 month old Blue Healer puppy
this past Mother's Day. He was leashed to a tiedown in the bed as we
drove off from our Mother's Day picnic. For reasons I'll never know, he
suddenly jumped, dangled from the lead, got tangled in the rear wheel
and was crushed. I was driving 15mph down the road, when I felt a thump
under the rear wheel. Little Bandit was dead in the road and my wife and
kids saw it all. I picked him up, laid him in the bed and gave him a
backyard burial 10 minutes later. My wife was hysterical and the kids (7
and 2) cried their eyes out. That little guy loved running from
wheelwell to wheelwell barking at everything. I thought he was safe
because non of my other dogs ever jumped.
We hadn't had too much of a chance to love this dog, but he was finally
pooping in the corner, heeled while walking and recognized simple
commands. What really hurt my feelings was how he died and that it was
on Mom's day.
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 19:45, Jason Bleazard wrote:
> Note: I'll warn you now that if you aren't an animal lover, don't think
> that pets are part of the family, and don't understand why anyone gets
> upset over losing "just a dog", then you'll probably want to delete this
> thread now. Sorry if this is off topic or really sappy, but I really need
> to get it out right now.
>
> I just wanted to post that Norah and I made it home from the BBQ yesterday
> afternoon without any problems. Unfortunately, as others have already
> mentioned, our dog Bobby couldn't come home with us... he won't be with us
> ever again.
>
> If you didn't catch some of the other messages that have been posted, he
> was killed at the DML BBQ on Friday when he ran right in front of Ed's
> Dakota. Ed never even saw him, and there wasn't anything he could have
> done. I don't think Bobby ever even saw the truck. He was pretty much an
> indoor apartment dog, and not very "streetwise" around vehicles. We saw
> it happen. I wish I knew how to get rid of the images that have been
> haunting me. I just hope we didn't bring down the mood too much for
> everyone else. If we seemed to disappear a lot, well, we knew everyone
> was laughing and having a good time, and it didn't feel right to remind
> you of the dark cloud over our heads. It kind of hit me in waves. Some
> times I'd be feeling okay, then I'd forget and look around to see where he
> was. Of course, he wasn't there... and I'd start missing him all over
> again.
>
> I really want to express my appreciation to everyone who expressed their
> condolences and helped us through this ordeal. Particularly to Jon and
> his family. They offered to provide a final resting place on their
> property, and took care of everything for us. He's in a very beautiful
> place in the woods. Everyone who has been there knows what a beautiful
> place it is. We're both eternally grateful to know that he's in such a
> nice place.
>
> We're having a pretty rough time adjusting to life without the little guy
> around. Everywhere I look in the apartment, I see him there... sleeping
> on the couch, sitting in the kitchen waiting for food, or even sitting in
> the hallway patroling for cats to walk around the corner. I can still
> feel the weight of his head in my lap and the softness of his fur under my
> hands. I can hear the clinking of his tags, and every time I walk in the
> door I halfway expect to hear him barking at me at first, only to see that
> it's me and come running to the door with a shoe or some other damned
> thing in his mouth, wagging his entire body in excitement. I keep hoping
> that what I saw was just a bad dream, only I know it wasn't.
>
> I guess you have to understand that we're bona-fide animal lovers. We
> donate money to the Humane Society, and collect silly trinkets with animal
> pictures on them. As we apparently will never be able to have any
> children of our own, our pets are really the closest thing we'll ever have
> to a family. If you doubt it, all you have to do is look at our web site
> at http://home.primus.ca/~janor2/animals/zoo.htm We haven't found time to
> set up pages for our trucks or ourselves, but we managed to get something
> together for the animals.
>
> I know that we'll be okay, that the pain will ease and that life will go
> on. It always does. We've both lost pets before. Any time you let a
> dog, cat or other animal in to your life and your heart, you know in the
> back of your mind that they aren't going to live very long, and one day
> you'll have to say goodbye. But that never makes it any easier when that
> day comes along.
>
> Damn... this is one tough message to write. Thanks for letting me get it
> out of my system. And thanks again to everyone who has been so supportive
> to both of us. It really made a world of difference, not that you'd know
> it by looking at the basket case that I've been lately.
>
> Rest in peace, buddy. I'm gonna miss ya.
> Love always, Jason the "take me for a walk" guy
>
>
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