Did you guys cry or almost cry when your dog/pet died?

[Cisco]

Just a month or 3 months ago, i posted a topic concerning my 8 year old GSD (German Shephard Dog) and his illness in the hips. The majority of the replies was to take him to a vet. Anyway the vet said that we took care of the dog very well but he was incurable and that it was herditary, and the vet was willing and instructing to put the dog to sleep.

My family and I refused, because ya we loved the dog. Anyway, as time went on the dog got worse. The dog was incapable of getting up because his hips were already useless... therefore, he would lay on his own piss and at night i would hear him cry because his balls and body was getting bitten by ants and he had no ability to help himself. I tried everything, i woke up allot during those nights to help him ad move him to a much more comfortable area. I even made him a srt of wheel chair in w/c he would be able to stand and move... but two days ago, the decision was made to put him to rest. Euthanasia. So the last day of Novemeber, we called 2vets over to the house to leathal inject him (w/c is illegal). It barely took 3 minutes for my dog to pass away. He didn't make any sound nor any negative reactions when the vet injected him.. so he peaced out. The dog was a good dog. He didn't bite, he was always very friendly owards everyone. And i mean everyone... he was really family. I held him and covered his eyes during the time he was getting injected, and i said goodbye Butch (his name) more than 15 times. I even filmed the whole day, and i'm proud i did it. I'm also planning to make a video dedicated to him...

Ya, i cried. Not just me but my entire family too. Even the night after i shed some tears, and my sister cried endlessly last night because of the fact that the dog won't ever comeback. I never did cry in funerals... even the funerals of my grandfathers, auns, uncles... i never had a friend die, except for one guy from my school who i was cool with... but i didn't know him as much to cry during his funeral. This was actually the 1st time i cried during someones death. I'm just letting shit out.

Anyone here who had a GSD die to this disease?

[X-Treme]

Even though the puppy times were rough as hell, I'm grown more than fond of my dog and I'm pretty sure I'll miss her presence around here.

Although y'know, I still got like 9 years before that even comes close to happening unless someone tries to take a knife/automobile to her.:lame:

She's become so part of us now, I'm sure there will be millions of heart strings being tugged when the time comes.

[Plutoburn]

I really hate to shit on threads like this but I feel it's important to let the message out. Lethal injection is no more humane than any other form of killing. The victim's death is very violent internally, but since the injection is packed with muscle relaxant, victims aren't able to show it. No matter how agonizing it is, it looks like nothing happened to us.

But I think the decision made was the right choice. There is no easy way to end one's life, but at the quality of life it was living, how it end is less relevant.

[Monte]

I had a turtle that ran away because my sister took it out of its tank and lost track of it. that's right a turtle ran away... I sure was sad that day.

[TheSix]

My pet gold fish died. Yeah....I won it at a carnival. It died after about 7 hours. Bastards got me.

I hardly cried though. Power Rangers was on.

[Will Gotti]

I really hate to shit on threads like this but I feel it's important to let the message out. Lethal injection is no more humane than any other form of killing. The victim's death is very violent internally, but since the injection is packed with muscle relaxant, victims aren't able to show it. No matter how agonizing it is, it looks like nothing happened to us.

But I think the decision made was the right choice. There is no easy way to end one's life, but at the quality of life it was living, how it end is less relevant.

Hmm, well put. Death is death IMO and no one knows the actual pain the person/living thing is going through at the point of. I always wondered what dying in one's sleep was like cause that seems like the most convenient. Most people say "that person died peacefully", but I'm wondering if they were dreaming (bad or good) or what...all sorts of things must have been racing through their minds, pain and peace.

[Æther]

I cried when my dog Thunder died during the summer. He was old enough (15 years) so when he started to have kidney failure we (my family) knew it wouldn't do any good for him to suffer.

The thing is that I never thought of Thunder as a dog but rather my BEST FRIEND. 15 years. I was just 8 when I got him.

I still remember the time he bit this dipshit kid one time because he was bugging Thunder. He took him by the wrist and CHOMPED that shit. And the best part was that the parent said he DESERVED that shit. :rofl:

Good times, dude. Good times. :)
Thunder
RIP
1992-2007

[Bedfast Emperor]

I really hate to shit on threads like this but I feel it's important to let the message out. Lethal injection is no more humane than any other form of killing. The victim's death is very violent internally, but since the injection is packed with muscle relaxant, victims aren't able to show it. No matter how agonizing it is, it looks like nothing happened to us.

But I think the decision made was the right choice. There is no easy way to end one's life, but at the quality of life it was living, how it end is less relevant.

Isn't the feeling of getting a lethal injection like being drowned to death or somehing? Something involving not being able to breathe and not being able to do anything about it?

[zakky]

Shedding tears when a pet dies is completely normal. I cried when my first two dog's died, I was a little older and not with the dog when my third one died so I didn't cry, but I'm fairly certain I'll cry when my current one dies. It won't be bawling like when I was younger but I'll definitely shed a tear or two. It's a lot easier to grow close to pets like dog's and cat's than it is to grow that close to people. It's just really shitty, best to remember good times.

[Torn Apart]

i shed a tear when my cat Sarah died. She was 18 years old when she passed, the same age i was. She was actually born a couple months before i was.

[Ne0phyte]

I don't understand how a person couldn't cry at the death of a pet. I'd have to assume your pet wasn't really a pet but just an animal.

[Raziel321]

just reading that post made me sad. that sucks, i have never cried at a funeral of anybodies, but i would definitely cry if my dog died. i have nightmares about him getting hit by a car and just trenched

[zakky]

I don't understand how a person couldn't cry at the death of a pet. I'd have to assume your pet wasn't really a pet but just an animal.

They're called emotions. Chicks dig them.

I really don't understand the second part of this post.

[Will Gotti]

They're called emotions. Chicks dig them.


Neo is one.

[Dhalsimowns]

There's no pet like a dog. Much less a family dog everyone has loved for years and grown with. If nobody has ever had a dog like that they wont understand.

One of the maybe few times I have ever cried, say, ever, was when I was 13 and my 12 year old dog was on his deathbed.
I remember my mom bringing in him when was 1 and half and naming him. I dont care what people say about memories before three, that shit and other things are still vivid in my mind. He was my dads favorite dog ever, and the most loyal, friendly, smart, dog I have maybe ever seen to this day.

My family moved from house to house, and from Canada to Cali and he was always there. He developed throat cancer around 11 and at 12 vet surgeon tried to remove it but basicly hacked his throat all to shit. So I came home one day from school and parents told he was going to die within a few hours. He was lying on the bed gasping and passed away with me and my famly all around him crying our eyes out. I think thats the only time the four of us have ever done that. I think he would have had 2-3 more years in him too because he was healthy as fuck and full of love. Even after his surgery, at 12 years old, he would still run his ass of to play fetch and jump in the ocean. Most dogs cant walk at that age and he could still run 25-30mph beside my motor scooter. He has an honorable, holy place in my heart that only my best memories and experiences share, and I still miss him to this day.

[epp1e]

God, the title of the thread alone reminded me of a major douchebag from elementary school. Long story short, the aforementioned douchebag intentionally got my friend's dog hit by a car.

[rcaido]

I never understood why people have pets...Come on their animals & you are caging them up in your homes...I swear only in america people treat their pets nicer then they treat another human.

[fishjie]

I never understood why people have pets...Come on their animals & you are caging them up in your homes...I swear only in america people treat their pets nicer then they treat another human.

says the guy who lols at people committing suicide in various threads.

[rcaido]

nah i just have a problem with people who suicide...IMO i think they are stupid & weak...i have no sympathy for them...

[Cisco]

just reading that post made me sad. that sucks, i have never cried at a funeral of anybodies, but i would definitely cry if my dog died. i have nightmares about him getting hit by a car and just trenched

ya, even up to now i still can't feel the same. I never realised how sad i would be when that dog died because believe me, i had lots of dogs in the past.. the majority were stray/monrols(sp) though. I had a belgian shephard, jap poodle (i think that was the name), dog that looked like a small husky (don't know the breed), and a rotweiler. all died... the rott died when he was a pup. The GSD stayed the longest.

i really did all i could to avoid putting him to sleep.. but there was no other better choice.

[doujinshi_2001]

i cried a lot when my first cat died but i think i was like 9 or 10 and we buried her in my backyard....my cat would sleep in the garage at night and my mom heard something in the garage that woke her up and it was my cat =( apparently, my cat was choking or something and it was too late she died. i ended up getting another one that looked exactly like it (it was actually one of her kittens that my dad had) and that cat is still with me today.

i love my cat with all my heart and its really become a part of the family. my cat is so close to me, that it sleeps in my bed more than i do lol

[Cisco]

My family moved from house to house, and from Canada to Cali and he was always there. He developed throat cancer around 11 and at 12 vet surgeon tried to remove it but basicly hacked his throat all to shit. So I came home one day from school and parents told he was going to die within a few hours. He was lying on the bed gasping and passed away with me and my famly all around him crying our eyes out. I think thats the only time the four of us have ever done that. I think he would have had 2-3 more years in him too because he was healthy as fuck and full of love. Even after his surgery, at 12 years old, he would still run his ass of to play fetch and jump in the ocean. Most dogs cant walk at that age and he could still run 25-30mph beside my motor scooter. He has an honorable, holy place in my heart that only my best memories and experiences share, and I still miss him to this day.


Ya, that was the same thing we did. We circled around my dog butch, me my siblings my parens and our oher long time dog... as i said, i was holding his head, petting him gently and covering his eyes. I watch the video i took over and over again, and there are parts where he looks directly at the camera before he gets the shot. When he was lying there in his deathbed, i sat next to him and played a You'll be in my heart in the guitar for him. we, as a family, carried him together and buried him to his grave w/c is in an empty lot right next to my house.

Dogs really are family. Sure not all dogs obey 100%, do fancy tricks, never shit and smell shit... but that's alright... it's what the dog was, family, that only matters. We circled around him and held him during he last moments, because he was and always will be part of my family.

[rcaido]

Ya, that was the same thing we did. We circled around my dog butch, me my siblings my parens and our oher long time dog... as i said, i was holding his head, petting him gently and covering his eyes. I watch the video i took over and over again, and there are parts where he looks directly at the camera before he gets the shot. When he was lying there in his deathbed, i sat next to him and played a You'll be in my heart in the guitar for him. we, as a family, carried him together and buried him to his grave w/c is in an empty lot right next to my house.

Dogs really are family. Sure not all dogs obey 100%, do fancy tricks, never shit and smell shit... but that's alright... it's what the dog was, family, that only matters. We circled around him and held him during he last moments, because he was and always will be part of my family.


Wow that's so sad...If i was single i probably use that sad story to pick up chicks like
ne0phyte...

[Will Gotti]

i cried a lot when my first cat died but i think i was like 9 or 10 and we buried her in my backyard....my cat would sleep in the garage at night and my mom heard something in the garage that woke her up and it was my cat =( apparently, my cat was choking or something and it was too late she died. i ended up getting another one that looked exactly like it (it was actually one of her kittens that my dad had) and that cat is still with me today.

i love my cat with all my heart and its really become a part of the family. my cat is so close to me, that it sleeps in my bed more than i do lol

Yea my cat is getting up there too, but she's pretty healthy AFAIK. She's about the same age right now, about 9 or 10, and she's like a 3rd sister to me. She's been in my family since she was a little kitten. We're pretty close.

She follows me around like a dog would, sleeps with me sometimes when I pass out and forget to close the door, she'll watch TV with me and sit in my lap looking at the monitor when I'm on the CPU, in the rare times I get sick she'll sit by my side all day and empathize, when I lived in Van Nuys and was renting a house during college she'd run around the yard with me and we'd lay out in the sun and just chill.

She's the only family I have over here on the west coast. Most if not all my family to my knowledge is all over the east coast.

[DaDesiCanadian]

I didn't cry when my dog died, but I loved that thing.

Cisco, what you did seems really inhumane. You should have put the dog down much earlier. When a dog is lying in it's own piss and being bitten by ants, you should have had it's life ended MUCH before that. I guess I do understand why you didn't, but you hurt that dog much more than it should have been hurt.

[Will Gotti]

I didn't cry when my dog died, but I loved that thing.

Cisco, what you did seems really inhumane. You should have put the dog down much earlier. When a dog is lying in it's own piss and being bitten by ants, you should have had it's life ended MUCH before that. I guess I do understand why you didn't, but you hurt that dog much more than it should have been hurt.

True, but hindsight is 50/50. Emotions can take over people and I'm sure he wasn't trying to be inhumane but was rather hoping for things to get better. I'm thinking he probably wanted the dog to survive and miraculously get better against the odds of his hereditary disease.

[Cisco]

I didn't cry when my dog died, but I loved that thing.

Cisco, what you did seems really inhumane. You should have put the dog down much earlier. When a dog is lying in it's own piss and being bitten by ants, you should have had it's life ended MUCH before that. I guess I do understand why you didn't, but you hurt that dog much more than it should have been hurt.

when i took him to the vet, the dog was still capable of sitting down. I had no idea that it was going to get worse... eventually it did. There were many times when i thought of making him sleep. But when i thought of it, he would then look at me... so that made me think that i should give him a chance some how. W/c is why i made a wheel chair for him w/c worked greatly because everytime he was on it he was walking and enjoying it. It was just during night time that was bad...
I was hoping that things would get better, but nah it didn't. It got worse, meaning sleeping on his piss, the ants bitting him, and the fact that he couldn't sleep because of that.

We all knew that putting him to sleep wasn't a bad idea, but we and i mostly wanted to try how plan b would work.

[DaDesiCanadian]

when i took him to the vet, the dog was still capable of sitting down. I had no idea that it was going to get worse... eventually it did. There were many times when i thought of making him sleep. But when i thought of it, he would then look at me... so that made me think that i should give him a chance some how. W/c is why i made a wheel chair for him w/c worked greatly because everytime he was on it he was walking and enjoying it. It was just during night time that was bad...
I was hoping that things would get better, but nah it didn't. It got worse, meaning sleeping on his piss, the ants bitting him, and the fact that he couldn't sleep because of that.

We all knew that putting him to sleep wasn't a bad idea, but we and i mostly wanted to try how plan b would work.

No, I totally get it. If you've had a pet for that long, it's one of the hardest decisions you can make, seeing that there's no going back if you do put it down.

[Laike]

this thread has gotten me pretty emo.....

cisco i feel for you man...

[Cisco]

No, I totally get it. If you've had a pet for that long, it's one of the hardest decisions you can make, seeing that there's no going back if you do put it down.


yup. It was hard. The dog looked up at me everytime i was thinking of calling the vet to end him... every look i got from that dog was just too much and it made me want to fight a way for him to get better.

[DaFlipMastaXV]

Even though I had no interest in a getting a pet over 3 years ago, I will probably cry when my dog dies.

[Dhalsimowns]

Ya, that was the same thing we did. We circled around my dog butch, me my siblings my parens and our oher long time dog... as i said, i was holding his head, petting him gently and covering his eyes. I watch the video i took over and over again, and there are parts where he looks directly at the camera before he gets the shot. When he was lying there in his deathbed, i sat next to him and played a You'll be in my heart in the guitar for him. we, as a family, carried him together and buried him to his grave w/c is in an empty lot right next to my house.

Dogs really are family. Sure not all dogs obey 100%, do fancy tricks, never shit and smell shit... but that's alright... it's what the dog was, family, that only matters. We circled around him and held him during he last moments, because he was and always will be part of my family.

We watched my dog look up and breathe his last breath as my dad said, its ok, you can go. I swear that dog was so loyal and true that it would have fought death to be there as long as we needed. He wheezed and gasped for hours on that bed and somehow, when my dad told him to go, letting him know he had suffered long enough and that he was a good dog, my dog raised his head with last effort, looked at my dad and breathed out his life. He hung on for us, and fittingly, he let go for us too. When his last breath was out and his head fell back down we all literally exploded in tears. Its the only I have ever seen my dad almost weep.

[BIGWORM]

I got depressed when my cat got ran over...

in front of my apartment...

and it took animal control 3 days to get him...

=/

[dropthesky]

My cousin had a bird for a couple of years, he'd let the bird fly around the house, it was actually really gentle and land on our hands and shoulders, he'd actually put it on his shoulder and and it would stay there like a parrot or something, it was a budgie, one of those budgies that could learn to talk like a parrot, except this one never did because there was another budgie in the cage, and they can't learn to mimic human voices if they spend time with other birds.

So one day the bird flies outta the house. He and I try to chase it down, but it went to some wooded area and we couldn't find it. At first I was mostly frustrated and I'm like don't worry, we'll find it, fucking birds eh? I look over to see my cousin tearing up, my heart almost exploded right there, and before I knew it I was tearing up too. He loved that bird. Then he went on to explain how these house birds can't survive on their own, they've never had to find their own food, and he would starve by the end of tomorrow. By that time we were both crying. When we went back to the house the other bird, who is usually chirping no stop was just staring silently at us...like where's my friend, like she knew it was gone for good. That was a sad day.

[Gimpy]

I had a turtle that ran away because my sister took it out of its tank and lost track of it. that's right a turtle ran away... I sure was sad that day.



Man I thought I was all by myself on this. :lol: i had a turtle when I was in high school and I let him out of his tanke, lost track of him and I found him 2 days later underneath my desk in my room. I still don't know how I did not see him. :rofl:


But yeah I cried when my old cat, Tabitha, had to be put to sleep because of problems she had with her him that was broken by mo mother accidently laying on her. We couldn't afford the operation to fix it and it healed the wrong way. :sad:

[mcginnis]

My friend's little brother had a turtle which he left outside in the tank and pretty much got fried.:lol:

Funny thing was that he thought he could "revive" it with ice.

I never cried about a pet dying, probably since ALL my pets died and died around the time I lost interest in them. :sweat:

[JackTenrac!]

- I cannot say that the situation was the same, but damn, I felt bad when mine died. We lost two rabbits: Flopsy the 1st(American Fuzzy Lop), and Thumper(Thumper, mysteriously died on the 1st week). I didn't bother crying about Flopsy the 1st. We had him for a good 8 years, so his time was definitely nigh. However, for him to go out the way he did, was just wrong on our part. We neglected him because of drama issues with the family.

We have another rabbit now, Nigga(aka Flopsy the 2nd), and we usually do bring him to the Vet if there is an issue. In the long run, it's ridiculous because you're paying for the little guy(who goes for about $32 alone) like 6 times over for treatment. Even his medicine is expensive.

[Fadedsun303]

My cat was about 15/16 years old and she had a tumor in her ear that was most likely branching out into her brain. I couldn't afford surgery to get it removed, and the vet told me it might not even be successful if they tried.

The night we put her to sleep, she wanted to go outside, so I was out there with her. It looked like she was just going to lay down on the ground, but when she turned over on her side, she started to seizure. I just lost it. I thought she was going to die right there. I ran to get my brother so he could call my mom and have her get up to Boston so she could take us to the vet. I didn't want to wait any longer in putting her to sleep because she was suffering and I couldn't watch it any longer.

Me, my mom, and my brother were all in the room when they gave her the shot to put her to sleep. It was very depressing. I had my hand on her and I felt her heart stop, and the vet told us she was gone.

[ReloadChapstick]

Man, I hear you. I have two dogs and three cats and if anything happened to them I'd be extremely sad, definitely cry for sure. I've been worried about my Beagle, 'cause he's 9 years old now, but he's still pretty healthy.

[Endless]

It's kind of hard to explain unless you have met my bro's pet hamster, but the hamster (Gibel) was awesome.

He got an eye infection a year ago, and my family had to put him down. My mom was crying on the phone, my brother was really sad, but didn't cry.

I didn't cry on the phone.

Until at night, when I really thought of it more, I cried. I felt pretty sad about it.


Thankfully, my pet ball python should live for a long time. They can apparently live up to 35 years (!)

[CrouchingTiger]

Sad story about the dog. :sad:

No I've never cried when my previous dogs have died. I was there when one was put to sleep as well. It was more of my parents' dog than my own. Maybe a family dog you could say. I was sad of course but didn't cry. Perhaps one day when I own a dog that IS my own, I would be moved to tears when he passed away. =\

edited to not sidetrack the topic.

[iwst99]

My friend is in Prague and Budapest on vacation right now. He felt bad before he left because his cat that he's had for 20 years was acting weird lately. It would only drink water and sleep, not eat or play or anything. He's only gone for 9 days, and he hoped to make it back before his cat passed.

Today he sent me an email from Budapest telling me he just found out his cat passed away....he's really sad and said he can't really enjoy his vacation now.

I feel for him, and you as well. :(

[deadfrog]

Maaaan, when our family dog died I cried like a baby. I was probably about 15 and so was she.

She was always a wandering dog (we lived up in the mountains) but she always came back for meals and bed time. She went missing out of nowhere for two days, so my dad went searching for her. A few hours later he showed up at the front door covered in blood, cradling her in his arms.

She had become incredibly ill in an extremely short period of time. We didn't need the vet to tell us it was time to put her down. Me and my bro held her while the vet gave her the injection, and I just lost it.

Pretty wussy stuff when I look back and think about it. :rofl:

[voodazz]

I cried when I had to put my dog down. So what? Wanna fight about it??!