OMG, I am crying with you

This is just too fresh in my mind, having just lost my lab, Murphy less than 3 weeks ago.  I know what you are feeling and what you are going through.  I cried and cried over making the decision.  The vet sent me a wonderful card stating that sometimes the kindest thing we do for our pets is to say good bye.  Murphy just gave me a look when it was time.  I can't explain it, but I know he was trying to tell me that the suffering was too much. I read somewhere the dogs are very stoic.  They don't tend to show pain unless it is pretty severe, and his cries told me that it was pretty severe. 

As far as the buriel, the vet's office asked right up front on the phone.  I had the choice of cremation, a common buriel (here it is at a farm as we are a little on the rural side) or taking the body.  Talked to my sons, and my oldest said he would bury him, that he wanted him at home.  The vet wrapped him up very nicely for us, but did give us the option to do it ourselves.  Bless my son.  Murphy was a big dog, nearly 90 pounds, and my son had to work hard to dig his grave.  I am planning on planting a small flower bed there as well, as it is in the back corner of my yard, which is pretty barren right now. 

Anyhow, it should be your choice.  Just tell them up front what you want when the time comes.  I am so, so sorry you are going through this.  I wouldn't want to be in your shoes for anything right now.  Just keep telling little Fox how much you love him (though he knows that).  Please keep us posted on how things go for him. 

• Delicate question not for the faint of heart - Okie MT
  • I lost my Tasha last May - Patti
  • Thanks so much everyone - Fox is feeling a bit better sm - Okie MT
  • OMG, I am crying with you - academia
  • My community does not allow yard burials but - Animalhouse
  • I have put down several pets and buried at home; vets will provide a box - you can put pet's blanket/toy in. N/M
  • I don't know where you live, but all of our family pets are buried at their homes. SM - Hurting for you
  • remains - freebie
  • Dog - CB
    • My vet has a service that provided sm - mlstoo
  • Take him home and bury him. Worked for vet, this - was never a prob. Who is going to tell? nm
  • P.S. That's "Fox"...hard to see these tiny letters through tears...nm - Okie MT
    • At the vet office I'm at... - MslaMT
      • One more thing... - MslaMT
        • I was planning on making a flower bed there - Okie MT
          • That's what my parents did for our beloved Scottie, Maggie. SM - Hurting for you
          • Bless your heart - cat
          • P.S. Also our back yard is fenced in - Okie MT

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=PYBz2gjEfA

I sure couldn't.  It gets me so upset I actually felt ill, but at the same time I wish everyone thinking of getting a pet could watch it.  Hope I posted the link correctly.  It's on shelter animals.  The title is "In Hope, An Animal Shelter Story."

I have been married 15 years....this morning my husband came in and said, "Eric said your storage building is ready!"  You might think I would be happy.  He thought I would be.  The problem is that in 15 years of marriage I have been able to pick out nothing. I mentioned a few weeks ago that I would like an outside storage building.  I mentioned a couple I had seen.  My husband did not discuss it with me at all but went to the neighbor and had him build a storage building. I have no idea what it will look like, no idea what size, what color, anything.  It wouldn't be such a big deal but I honestly don't get to pick anything out. 

11 years ago I had just had a baby and my husband picked out our house while I was home recovering from a c-section.  He told me this was where we were going to live.  He had refused to even look at any of the houses I had liked during my pregnancy.  He told me we would remodel this house any way I wanted, get any furniture I wanted.  I was so anxious to get out of the rundown noisy apartment building we were in that I agreed to move here.  Then of course, no remodeling, no new furniture. 

Three years ago I really needed a new car. My husband said he would start looking for one.  HE would start looking for one for me.  A year later HE had still not found one.  I found a used, reasonably priced car and told him I wanted to buy it.  He said no.  I told him I really needed a vehicle. It was less than $10,000.  He finally agreed but was mad at me for a year over it and told his parents that I had gone out and bought myself "a new car".  It was actually 4 years old.  A year ago he bough a boat for $10,000 that I had never even seen and brought it home and announced we had a new boat.  Six months ago he bought a $30,000 truck and took me to see it at the dealership after he had already bought it. 

So now I am a b*tch for not being happy about the new storage building.  woohoo

Why such a division?  The bottom line is that we all just want to communicate with people in the same field of work.  This does not give anyone the right to slam the "other board" or certain people.  Sounds like some of you just need to get a life.