ARmy Rumour SErvice

**PeacePhlapps** · 16-05-2012, 21:29

Originally Posted by fairy_nuff

Tiny puppy Bob is nursed back to health despite losing an eye after being dumped in vet's car park | Mail Online

Found this on the Mail site, how could anyone hurt that? Never ceases to amaze me what people do to animals and the animals come right back to anyone who loves them.

Got to love the jumper made from a hat

**Kirsty** · 16-05-2012, 21:38

Have just lost my dog, three weeks now and im heart broken. I get up same time to take him for a walk, I hear him moving around at night and look for him all the time, when I dont see him in his usual place, my eyes fill with tears. Im determined to have another one, but feel that I would be betraying him. Damn Alaskan Malamutes, why did they have to be so bloody amazing.

**DavidBOC** · 16-05-2012, 21:48

Kirsty -

It is amazing how dogs become part of you. I've been there. Sorry about your dog.

**Monty417** · 16-05-2012, 21:51

What David said Kirsty. It's a deep deep hurt.

**DavidBOC** · 16-05-2012, 22:34

It will be three weeks on May 22nd that Lizzie died. Her ashes are still on the mantel in a wooded chest and for some reason I cannot throw out her leather color that has her name and phone number engraved on a brass tab.

**BONNACON** · 16-05-2012, 22:42

Sorry Kirsty it's going to take a while for the pain not to feel physical. 3 months to the day since I lost Sadie.

**Count.Dracule** · 17-05-2012, 07:33

Stop it, Dale will be along soon and you will set her off again!

However I sympathies with anyone who has lost their best friend/friends!

**Markintime** · 17-05-2012, 08:41

Originally Posted by DavidBOC

It will be three weeks on May 22nd that Lizzie died. Her ashes are still on the mantel in a wooded chest and for some reason I cannot throw out her leather color that has her name and phone number engraved on a brass tab.

When my dog Harry died we left his lead and collar together with his car harness on their hook on the back door. It remained there until we got a new dog and then we put it away because it was Harry's belongings and we bought Bruno his own set of kit. We had also left Harry's dog blanket in front of the fire but as soon as Bruno walked into the room he made that his own and snuggled up on the edge of the blanket with his head on the casket that contained Harry's ashes. Cue floods of tears from the Mem Sahib and I!

It's funny how dog's have their own little habits, Harry used to do the 'four-paw thing' whereby he would transfer his weight onto each leg in turn so he gave a little twitch at each corner, that told you he wanted something! Bruno does the 'chin thing' where he comes and rests his chin on you as he is stood and then he looks up at you at which point your heart has melted. I have never met a dog so kind hearted and loving to everyone as I have Bruno, he loves everyone! I find it so hard to believe that he came to us having been incredibly badly abused as a puppy.

Shortly after we got Bruno we moved which really unnerved him. He cuddled up to a giant Tigger that sits on the floor and looked really quite distressed for a couple of days before he got accustomed to his new surrounds. The first couple of times we took him to kennels he really got distressed but after that he seemed to understand that we weren't going to leave him (Bru was rescued by a Pub Landlord who had seen how he was being abused but 4 months later he had to go to another pub with cats and a no dog rule so we got Bru) and he absolutely loves going to the kennels now and all the kennel maids love him and make an extra fuss of him because he's such a loving dog.

Bruno and I spend all day, everyday together and everywhere I go, he goes. When his time comes, as it must, he wont die from lack of love, that's for sure.

**Cab-scab** · 17-05-2012, 09:07

Its a very sad loss when you loose a dog.We had to have a puppy put down,Mrs C-s had to leave the surgery but I stayed with him till the end,it was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do.

**jumpinjarhead** · 17-05-2012, 14:08

Originally Posted by tom_dkg

This one seems to specially deserve a good home! Just watch out for her memory PeacePhlapps! I have had my latest rescue a few years now, and I'm still not 100% confident he will be nice when we meet anyone in a hoodie or tracksuit bottoms........ orr perhaps he just reads me too well now?

Such scars run deep. Several of our rescue pack still cower whenever I or any other male human come in the same room even after 6 years of loving care. Progress is measured in how wide a berth they give you as they walk by.