What do you do if your dog dies?

[threebikesmcginty]

i lost my last dog three years ago, he is the retriever in this picture, he was only 10 year old and it happened suddenly due to leukemia. It totally destroyed me for a couple of weeks. We now have the german shepherd in the picture and one of her pups and I don't even want to think about anything happening to them.

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Ooo that hound on the left is scary, it has the fires of hell burning in its eyes. Or something.

 

[fossyant]

Had the cats cremated after they passed away and buried their ashes

 

[Chris S]

What do you do if your dog dies?

Keep it away from Oxford undergraduates.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

What do you do if your dog dies? Well, probably I'll sit in a corner of a room with my head on my knees sobbing my heart out for several days.

It might be worse than that - I collapsed on the floor when Lovely Wife took 'the call' from the vet. Just laid in a heap, blubbing for ages.

 

[Fnaar]

I'll miss my dog when she does eventually pop her clogs, but (unlike most on this thread) I don't think I'll look back... what started out as a dog "for the kids" (oh how naive I was!) is now more or less exclusively my responsibility, hampers potential evenings out after work (someone has to get home to walk the dog etc) and makes holidays problematic and/or expensive... I've decided I will never have another pet... I'm valuing my freedom more as I get it back with the kids' increasing self-reliance and independence

 

[classic33]

A few months ago I helped a friend who a few months after moving house found a poorly buried dog in the garden. He was doing some simply gardening when he found the dog buried less than an inch below the surface. It was a thoroughly unpleasant task disposing of the considerably smelly remains. If you are going to bury a big animal in your garden, please make sure you dig a big hole - and ideally don't move house within a year or two.

Found multiple skeletal remains when the bushes were replaced with a fence. Later informed, upon mentioning it to the local police, that I should have reported the find to them. They may have been human.

 

[slowmotion]

My father was a vet. I grew up with his surgery about fifty yards from our house. Obviously, he was asked to put down lots of dogs and cats. In hot weather, the bodies start to smell really alarmingly quickly. I'm sorry, but it's true. I just want to spare you an unpleasant surprise if you go the DIY route. When our dog was "offed" by the vet three years ago, we paid for him to deal with "the arrangements".

 

[Milkfloat]

[QUOTE 3963141, member: 259"]We used to be given sentences like that to translate back into Latin.[/QUOTE]

In A505, nec longe a nobis, quod est Cantabrigiae Pet Crematorium maximae reliquiae totius regionis quae circa regionem.

 

[ufkacbln]

In A505, nec longe a nobis, quod est Cantabrigiae Pet Crematorium maximae reliquiae totius regionis quae circa regionem.

... and now we have Google translate:

In the A505, not far from us, and this is the remains of the most important of the whole of the country with regard to the country of the Cambridge Pet Crematorium.

 

[jonny jeez]

There have been some distressing incidents on my street with the re-appearance of much loved, but very dead pets

This is a very good point. We should not confuse our sentiment with the very clear, early warnings of the Zombie Apocalypse.

Keep your eyes open out there.

 

[jonny jeez]

It was a bit embarrassing that it turned out not to be my cat

How can you be sure...there are some really well documented stories of at least one person coming back from the dead in our history. Plus all the zombies that @MarkF has witnessed first hand.


There is a theme developing here.

 

[Gravity Aided]

In my county, cremation and burial , either in mass area-(used to be required) or at home. I have memorials, but no remains, in front garden. Little boxwood topiary for Missy, a Yellow Labrador and a gem of a dog, and a column for Sophia, a Hurricane Katrina survivor who came to us through many circumstances, and ruled canines in home and neighborhood before passing from bone cancer at 7.

 

[Fnaar]

 

[Levo-Lon]

... and now we have Google translate:

on the translation theme..in a far easter country the product Gaviscon was described as..
"Like having a fireman come in your mouth".. not the usual cure for heartburn

 

[Levo-Lon]

My little border wont be long before its border heaven..she doesn't seem to be coping well with being blind ,partially deaf and maybe a little doggy dementia..but when the time comes I'll be very sad, but i wont let her suffer ..she will most likely be buried in the garden under the little tree she spends hrs sitting when the time comes.