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Sadly this afternoon we took the decision to put our Great Dane Harley to rest. We have placed him in the shade of a tree, near the sound of a running stream where the sound of running deer will be often heard.
Good dog, better friend. Harley was much loved and will be sadly missed by our family.
Rushy my thoughts are with you and your family. You made the difficult D. Harley will be terrorising the deer in the clouds above, good on you mate for doing the right thing. RIP Harley!
Always sad losing a friend, but he would have had a great life with you. My condolences Rushy.
Thoughts with you also.
One of the hardest things to do I reckon ..
Never easy, ran over my little mate 5mths ago absolutly gutted. Have got another, different breed called it Tilly as We hope, and she does lite up our lives. Took 2mnths to decide to get another and what breed. Judging on your obvious love of Harley, there is definitly another dog out there that needs a owner like you. With my repects.
Condolences to you and yours Rushy. Never a good day when one of our four-legged family members pass on.
Thanks to for the kind thoughts. I go through life thinking I am this tough old bugger but today saw me leaking like a sieve.
Condolences Rushy ,its hard loosing a member of the family and I feel for you mate
I feel for you mate.........honestly.
It has to be one of the hardest things to do.:(
+1 It definately is. Rushy you're a brave man. Chin up bud.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
So sorry to hear about Harley. I had to put my dog down over a year ago and I still miss the big girl. They take a bit of your heart when you lose them.
Im not good with this mushy stuff but sorry for your lose matey
i feel for you.just stupid how attached you get to them isnt it.i only lost my dog 4 a nite and that was hard enuff,just rember the good times
Thanks guys (and guyettes (Dougie)) I appreciate your kind thoughts. We just couldn't watch the big bugger going down hill any longer even though the medication was helping. He had a tumor in his bladder and his liver failed this morning. We took him for a last walk across a couple of paddocks, let him fool around in the pond, half heartedly worry a couple of Parries, eat some crap he found and then while we sat with him in the sunshine the vet administered the overdose. There is some small consolation in that he was doing the stuff he enjoyed.
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No good boss, was in your shoes a few moths ago. You did the right thing though, its not easy. RIP Harley
Oh fuck sake rushy! that was sad as buggery.Your lucky to have spent the time with him in his end mate,I wasnt so lucky with my best dog but thats another story for another time its great what you did for him on his last time's:TT TT:
Tears and condolences with you and your family Rushy:(
Always hard to say goodby to an old friend. Sometimes life is no longer "life" and dead comes as a relief.
Thanks for the kind thoughts guys. Neckshot, it was sad because he was such a big part of our family life. The big lug used to follow my wife everywhere and she was so cut up she asked me to take her out in the dark last night to where he lays so that she could just sit with him a while.
Rushy - your last comment had me choke momentarily. I thought back to our German Shepherd who we had to put down. A shit of a time. The whole family bawled their eyes out, should I say it, more than when a close family member died. Maybe with humans we try to keep the stiff upper lip but it doesn't work with pets. I can still visualize our girl looking up at me with those gooey eyes that day we took her to the vet for the last time. I think also, as you have pointed out, when they have been a big part of your family life over a long period, the loss also references memories (good and bad) of your own life passing. (Morbid shit I know.) Unfortunately we never replaced our girl.
If I swivel round in my chair I can see a box on the top book shelf. It has the ashes of her old rottweiler that passed away a couple of years ago. I'm glad she didn't ask me to bury him, he was a big bugger and the hole would have been huge.
Condolences on losing a friend Rushy.
Sad news Rushy, been there a time or two, never gets any easier.
Thanks guys. Just come home and there was no barking, no dog bounding toward me, no wagging tale. I am sure that we will come to miss that.
RIP Harley