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Originally Posted by ShowGirlLola  Dog/pet deaths kill you.
I've stopped watching some shows over it, I used to watch Taxi as a kid and stopped because I was so upset when one of their dogs died, the dog wasn't even on the show.
I won't watch Frankenweenie.
I cried so hard when Hedwig and Dobby died in the last Harry Potter book, the other deaths didn't bother me half as much.
I can handle people death/injury/sickness/abuse much better. I read a lot of medical and history things without a problem and they can be very brutal. |
I'm right there with you. I've worked in a surgeon's office for my whole life and quickly learned not to be distracted by human suffering all that much but all that comes to a screeching halt when I see a dog who is sick/injured. I can barely hold myself together when it's a dog in trouble. And it's getting worse with me.
I was driving home yesterday when I saw 10 or 11 cars pulled over to the side of a feeder road off LBJ Freeway that I take home and I slowed down. All of the people were out of their cars which were parked anyhow along the way and congregated around something in the center of the group. I wondered if it were a fight or a wreck/pedestrian struck with a victim down but couldn't see any damaged cars and heard no sirens on the way. As I drove by very, very slowly, I saw the crowd part to reveal three people lifting a full-grown, gorgeous German Shepherd dog, with one lifting under his chest, one his middle and another his hind quarters and were carrying him toward an SUV with the hatch open. The dog was awake, his big brown eyes were pretty wide open and his ears were way out to the sides as if he were in distress so I imagine the poor guy had just been struck by a car.
He looked right at me with those big, brown eyes as I drove slowly by and I just burst into tears and cried all the way home. He looked so pitiful, confused and obviously in real trouble and it just hit me so hard seeing a dog that way. I wanted to call around to the vets' clinics and vet ER nearby and just see if they could tell me anything about him but decided they all probably had their hands full with the dogs they had in their clinics and wouldn't tell me anything anyway. I felt such an instant connection to him. But thankfully he had a whole lot of rescuers and people already helping him so I'm certain he got whatever vet care he needed with that many people stopping to help and obviously concerned about him. I have thought a lot and worried about him since and just pray he's going to be okay.