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07-02-2013, 03:59 PM | #61 | |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: NJ, USA
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09-16-2013, 03:44 AM | #62 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: cairo
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| I cannot thank you enough. You will never know how you helped me. The sheer knowledge that I am normal to grieve more than I grieved humans at least ensured me that I am not insane. I am blessed though that husband, family, and friends understand, Tootsie was loved by everyone. It has been a week today and I see no getting better. I am purposeless and cannot find one thing Tootsie did not share with me. She accompanied me EVERYWHERE... work, outings, travel, parties even my Bank made the exception and allowed her in her carrier bag. We only ever parted for an hour max when I would drop in to buy something from a supermarket and she would be taken for a walk by driver until I came back. Even this has not happened for years now that I opted for delivery for this very purpose and Videos replaced movies! Everyone used to say, get her used to being apart in case you cannot have her with you. Little did I know.. I should have done this for ME.. so I get used to not having her around me all the time. Even my friends who used to laugh that I prefer being with Toots more then being with them when I would let down invitations if Toots was not allowed... They all mourn her today. I was consoled by what you said: that when she felt sick, I never felt frustrated, I never sulked while medicating her. I took time off and stayed with her until the final sad moment. I cuddled and pretended we were doing something fun together... she knew she can depend on me. She knew I loved her. But what she did not know, is that I was so reckless not to save her in time, so ignorant that it was too late. I am unable to forgive myself. |
10-20-2013, 06:35 PM | #63 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: May 2010 Location: Laguna Niguel, CA, US
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| Thanks so much. I just lost my Buster in a horrible accident and I am having trouble forgiving myself for it. I haven't eaten all day and I feel so sick. I'm going to try to make myself eat something. Your advice really hit home with me. |
12-01-2013, 11:02 AM | #64 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aspen, CO, US
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| Fantastic thread, especially the OP. My girlfriend just lost her Westie and I'm going to copy this for her. Thank you. |
12-01-2013, 04:21 PM | #65 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Long Island, New York
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| I am very sorry for your girlfriend's and your loss. I know how much it hurts. In time the sweet memories will begin to replace the pain you feel. I had two Westies when I was a teenager. They are wonderful dogs.
__________________ Lisa and Katie Ashley 6/10, Gracie 2/04, Kiwi 10/03, and Jolie 7/93 . |
04-16-2014, 03:46 PM | #66 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Aberdeen, NJ USA
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| A Mother's Unconditional Love AMother’s Unconditional Love…….for Her Yorkie Son “Ernie” I want to tell you about my wife Anna’s care of our agingYorkshire Terrier Ernie. But first, you must understand that Ernie was MYdog. He loved his Daddy. If I was in the pool he was a nervous wreck, following me around the pool deck wherever I swam, barking the whole time. My wife and kids would feign drowning, but his eyes were always locked on me. I was the guy who walked him and roughhoused with him and he loved it. About a year and a half ago our 15 year old Ernie, had a 2:00 AM “episode” where he jumped off our bed and was running, crying and shooting his rear right leg straight back as he ran. This went on for about two hours and we initially thought it might be a skeletal issue, like when Yorkie knees go out of socket. My wife Anna and my daughter Jennifer were able to soothe him to sleep and when he got up in the morning he seemed OK. That morning, we called the vet, explained what happened and she asked us how he was doing now. We said he seemed OK and she advised us to just watch him and let her know if it happens again. Over the next six months we noticed Ernie was losing his hearing and eyesight and was beginning to show signs of cognitive dysfunction. Nothing unusual for a 16year old dog we thought. He would walk in a circle from kitchen to dining room, living room, hallway and back to the kitchen. He could do this for hours, if we let him. About 6 months ago, he had another “episode” of running and kicking his leg backwards, and the vet then told us that the first episode may have been some type of brain injury. We had Ernie checked; blood, urine, skeletal and heart. Everything seemed OK. Fast forward a few months. Ernie could no longer jump off our bed and our bed was the ONLY place he would sleep. If he awoke from sleep and sat up he would shake his head and jingled his tags. When we heard this, we hadabout 5 seconds to get him off the bed and onto a pee pad or he wet his blankets. He awoke on average three times a night. I got pretty good at crawling on my hands and knees and moving the pee pad to wherever he was circling until he decided to go. He still ate and drank normally, but lost his ability to go outside to do his business. Whereas before he circled through three rooms, he now circled in tight 2 foot circles. Here is how my wife Anna and the rest of the family cared for our aging son/brother. We blocked the top of the stairs with a 6 inch high plank so that Ernie would not fall down the stairs. Everyone in the family got use to stepping over the plank to go upstairs or downstairs. We would never leave Ernie alone. One of us always had to be home with him. Our daughter Jennifer or son Michael would sometimes come over to give us a break and babysit Ernie.The peeing on the bed? No problem. Anna bought a waterproof mattress pad. Ernie loved to sleep cuddled in this one bedspread, but with the peeing issue, that was a problem. Anna cut the bedspread in half. She would bunch it up and place him comfortably on it. The other half of the bedspread was always washed and ready in case he had an accident. During the day, as he slept, she covered the bed with pee pads in case we did not hear him awake. Before she came up with this solution, she would sometimes be washing the bedding two or three times a day. With this solution, she would need to wash the bedding maybe once every other day. Since his eyesight was poor and he could no longer get off the bed himself, but sometimes fell off, she surrounded the bed with throw pillows and blankets so that if he fell off he would not be hurt. When he would wake up during the night, his routine was pee, drink some water and get put back on the bed and go to sleep. Other times, he would begin howling and circling on the bed refusing to lie down. My wife would interpret this as “he is hungry”, so at 3:30 in the morning she would be in the kitchen warming up chicken in the microwave or frying a cheese steak. She would sit on the floor in the bedroom, and hand feed him and then put him back to bed. Ernie would then sleep. We asked our new vet if there was something we could give him for his restlessness/pacing and he said we could tryXanex. At first this seemed to work, but not really. We then tried Valium with much the same result, so we stopped giving Ernie either of these. We then tried Anypril, which based on our reading, may have helped him when the original episode occurred, but at this stage it did not. On April 6, 2014, Ernie had his worst episode. It was our son Alan’s 39th birthday so the whole family was over and we heard howling from the bedroom. Ernie was crying out in pain, howling and kicking that right rear leg out again. He was inconsolable. Once again, I don’t know how she did it but after acouple of hours Anna got him to sleep. He awoke again at 2:00 AM with the same symptoms. Anna and our daughter Jennifer consoled him and eventually fed him a meatball from our son’s favorite birthday dinner! He went to sleep! At 6:00 AM he awoke and we knew it wast ime. We called the vet and asked if he could see Ernie and put him down, as he could no longer live like this. The vet was so loving and understanding of the significance of our decision. He took Ernie and inserted an IV for the sedative and the final shot and brought him to us wrapped in a rose colored blanket. We each got to hold him and get a last kiss. The vet told us to take as much time as we needed. When we were ready, he asked us if we wanted him to take Ernie in the back to administer the final shot. Anna insisted on holding him as it was administered. Ernie went to sleep and we all cried, just as I am crying as I write this. Ernie’s life was a full 16 years 7 months long. I always knew I had a wonderful, loving wife, but after seeing her tirelessly and patiently caring for our frail, aging Ernie all these months, I love and respect her more than ever. Me and Ernie ….. two very lucky guys. Ernie’s Dad |
04-19-2014, 04:34 PM | #67 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Mexico
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| Great first post. I've made up my mind about cremating my pets so I can keep them by my side (and later one be buried with them), due to how unsure it is that I might keep living forever in the same place. The crematory is owned by an old lady who wanted to offer the service for people of our city so I 100% trust her that nothing shady will happen, like some stories I've read online. |
04-19-2014, 05:11 PM | #68 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: USA
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| Thank you for this...
__________________ The Above advice/comments/reviews are my personal opinions based on my own experience/education/investigation and research and you can take them any way you want to......Or NOT!!! |
09-27-2014, 07:13 PM | #69 | |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: South Carolina
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09-27-2014, 07:14 PM | #70 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: South Carolina
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| Amazing!!!! Thank you, I feel better (little) but grateful <3 |
12-28-2014, 04:02 PM | #71 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Latrobe, PA
Posts: 20
| Question: Is it pet loss if you helped raise a Yorkie since it was a puppy and the Yorkie was almost like your own and then you HAD to cut off the owner from your life out of a fear for your own safety from the owner? |
12-28-2014, 06:10 PM | #72 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Aspen, CO, US
Posts: 544
| Sounds like a divorce and I'm sure this happens to a lot of couples. I'd say when any pet is taken from your life that's a loss. |
09-29-2015, 07:40 AM | #73 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Saint Louis, MO
Posts: 9
| I needed this today. Thank you. |
04-25-2016, 08:51 PM | #74 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Menifee
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| MY SON TOTO Passed on My Son TOTO, has passed on this morning. My wife and daughter didn't tell me until I got home this evening. I wasn't mad, my main concern was if he suffered. They said no. He had a heart murmur |
04-25-2016, 08:54 PM | #75 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Menifee
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| Surviving pet loss I'm very grateful, of this forum, and past info that I received for my son. It helped me to calm my nerves |
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