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My folks' dog Kiki is about to lose her battle with cancer. She's also 12 years old, and has had trouble with skin tumors for about 2-3 years now (which apparently metastasized to her lungs and spleen).

IDK how much longer she's got, but you have my sympathy.
Hopefully it's mega-treat time for Kiki. Spoil the fuck out of her.

Got a big tray of ground beef yesterday. Might make a peanut butter burger or two tonight.
 
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So Lucy isn't gonna be with us much longer. Her vertebrae is all fucked up in her back end, it's been for a few years but now it's progressed to the point where she's hopped up on painkillers, has trouble standing up, has trouble getting up on the ground, and pees herself unless we take her out every couple hours.

11 years old, almost 12. It's a long haul for a doberman. Usually DCM or other heart issues do her breed in but she's managed to avoid it. Especially considering she's a SPCA dog and not any kind of fancy "we'll breed that stuff out and have the best genetics" $$$ dog.

Brought some steaks and cheap hotdogs home tonight from the local meat market and just had a real nice steak dinner. This is gonna be her weekend.
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So Lucy isn't gonna be with us much longer. Her vertebrae is all fucked up in her back end, it's been for a few years but now it's progressed to the point where she's hopped up on painkillers, has trouble standing up, has trouble getting up on the ground, and pees herself unless we take her out every couple hours.

11 years old, almost 12. It's a long haul for a doberman. Usually DCM or other heart issues do her breed in but she's managed to avoid it. Especially considering she's a SPCA dog and not any kind of fancy "we'll breed that stuff out and have the best genetics" $$$ dog.

Brought some steaks and cheap hotdogs home tonight from the local meat market and just had a real nice steak dinner. This is gonna be her weekend.
So sorry gee. Hugs and scratches for Lucy. :(
 
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It's my last night with Lucy. Appointment is tomorrow at noon.

She's such a velcro dog, she's always gotta be lying up against you. Some nights the missus goes to bed early and I stay up and design stuff on my laptop on the couch with Lucy cuddled into me, and I figured I'd stay up an extra half hour and give her one last might of this. I built a nixie tube clock years ago using big tubes that never worked right, and I'm now getting around to finally finishing the thing.

I'm trying to make tonight as normal as possible for her and be strong instead of bawling my eyes out and upsetting her... but fuck, I'm gonna miss my sidekick.
 
It's my last night with Lucy. Appointment is tomorrow at noon.

She's such a velcro dog, she's always gotta be lying up against you. Some nights the missus goes to bed early and I stay up and design stuff on my laptop on the couch with Lucy cuddled into me, and I figured I'd stay up an extra half hour and give her one last might of this. I built a nixie tube clock years ago using big tubes that never worked right, and I'm now getting around to finally finishing the thing.

I'm trying to make tonight as normal as possible for her and be strong instead of bawling my eyes out and upsetting her... but fuck, I'm gonna miss my sidekick.
Sorry man. Pets are the best
 
I woke up early this morning, thinking about my old dog, and Lucy, and Kiki, and this thing flattened me.

 
I woke up early this morning, thinking about my old dog, and Lucy, and Kiki, and this thing flattened me.


Very touching. Brought the wife to tears.
I wasn't crying, allergies I say.
 
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Well, we said goodbye to Lucy yesterday.

She had a prime rib to herself the night before, and a half rack of ribs the morning of. And a whole lot of smoked pulled pork I thawed out for her, probably her favorite food. She went out happy.

Yesterday was pretty well an emotional write-off. Now we're at the camper taking a break from the house.

One thing that's helped me greatly is just bringing up Google Photos and just picking a random month in 2015 or whatever and seeing where we were that year. Big hikes, her running on the beach, her playing with other dogs, maybe just chilling on the couch at home. Lots of good times were had.

We're getting her cremated, and we'll spread her ashes at the beach near our old house. It was her favorite place in the world.

 
Haven't looked in this thread for quite a while, some sad stuff going on the last couple/few months.
I'm supposed to be some kind of insensitive hardass but that stuff just makes me cry. Been through it many times and it never gets any easier, and I hope it never does. Damn.
 
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i already told april on snapchat but here it is


So I let my dog out into the front yard to use the bathroom. I go to the bathroom to take a leak. All of a sudden I hear some dogs fighting.

So I run outside and one of my neighbors kids we're walking their Pitbull down the road without a leash. He ran into my yard and was biting my dog in the back of the neck.

So I kick their dog in the ribs. He lets go and my dog runs inside. I start yelling at these kids to keep their fucking dog on a leash. Their dad hears the commotion and comes outside and we get into a big ass argument.

brought my dog to the vet because he won't stop shaking/shivering and he's limping when he walks.

I got out of vets. Not too bad only 105 dollars. He had 2 wounds on his neck and one on his back. Biggest one was 2 inches.

Pain meds and antibiotics
 
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