A day I was dreading but happened sooner than I thought. I had to put down my loyal best friend today.
Sully was almost 10 which for Swissys is a good age (they average around 8 ). He was a big lovable doofus with a heart of gold. Everyone who met him loved him. I had strangers in the street ask me to take photos of him but above all else he was a as most big dogs the gentlest caring giant. My twin 4 year old boys miss him the most he was their confident, play mate and fur brother. They would go to him first when they wanted to be comforted, used him as a couch gave him nonstop hugs and were learning to read by reading to him.
This morning he was his normal playful self a little stiff and arthritic but still nudging me forcefully to make sure I scratched him hard behind his ears while he snuffled contentedly. I got home 4 hours later to find him laying on the kitchen floor comatose. Took me and two neighbors to move his 130lb furry beast into my car. The vet told me that he had a fast growing tumor that had caused him to bleed out. He wasn't suffering yet but he was weak and wouldn't last out the next couple of hours. The humane thing is to euthanize him right now. I said my goodbyes there in the vets office. He knew I was there and tried one last time to lift his big boxy head. I gave those silky soft ears of his a good last scratch and he was gone. But not alone and not scared. I dont mind admitting I bawled my eyes out there and I have tears winding their way down my face writing this now.
Big dogs bigger heart. I hope where ever you are finally catching those squirrels that you loved to chase
RIP Sully you were the best dog and friend I could ask for
Con
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Con, I'm so sorry you lost such a dearly loved friend. Reading about Sully is making me a bit teary as well and I only know him by your photo.
Con, that sucks. Sorry to hear about your loss. :(
Con as you know Sully was one of the inspirations for me and my family to get our Swissy, Clyde. Clyde is a year old and about 100 pounds now. I know you are some distance away but our door is always open if you and your family want to hang with Clyde, even for a few minutes.
Putting a dog down is one of the worst things I ever had to do.
Damn. That's a fine-looking dog. What a sad day for you. I've had to say 'Goodbye' to a few of my pugs and nurse them through their final hours so I know how tough it is. I know this sounds stupid, but I still dream at night about them sometimes and it makes me feel like they're still close. I believe I'll see them again someday and they'll be like I remember them, young and strong and full of life. And always at my side. So sorry for your loss Con.
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What a wonderful looking dog. Condolences.
Goddammit, sat drinking morning coffee and a grogs catch up and now I'm all teary - big hugs con he does indeed look like a big loveable doofus
words fail me :'( i cant take this kind of news without tears here my own :'(
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Sorry to hear of your loss, Con. :'(
After I lost my dog some years ago, a friend of mine sent me a copy of a poem entitled
Beau. It was written by Jimmy Stewart and it was about the dog he had lost. Below is a video of him reading the poem:
Condolences to you and your family, con. Always a sad day to say goodbye to a part of the family.
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This always breaks my heart. So sorry, Con.
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This always breaks my heart. So sorry, Con.
+1 Condolences to you and your family.
'Big lovable doofus' is he perfect way to describe these dogs. As I type this mine is chasing his own tail.
Slash I still have dreams of my Rottie and he died almost 2 years ago.
Four years ago tomorrow my last little girl left me. I could barely bring myself to take her food and blankets down to the Pet Shelter to donate afterward. We have a cat now that would not tolerate us bringing another dog in the house. If she knew how to pour her own food, she would change the door locks on us now probably.
I have a Basset/Beagle mix (a Bagel, maybe Bagle, I dunno) that we adopted when he was about 4 years old. That was about six years ago. He's showing no signs of age other than gray fur. I'm really not looking forward to the day that we have to put him down. I pray it's another several years at least.
I'm so sorry for your loss Con. I had to put down my cat a few years ago and it still haunts me to this day on occasion. Just remember though, your dog will always be with you in your heart.
I'm very sorry your family lost a member.
We had to put one down. Deaf, blind, had a dog stroke so it walked in circles hitting its head on the wall on every lap. Our vet came to the house to put Snort out of her misery. She was 18 (a small rescue mutt).
I hope that our current dogs: Wrigley, Zippo and Max all go of natural causes like yours did. Having one put down is worse than having them die a natural death.
Hi everyone
Thanks for the kind words. Its been a real rough last 48 hours. Everywhere I look there are reminders. I think I am taking it harder than my boys. They ask to see photos of him and have asked to make a book of Sully pictures like we normally do from our vacations. We have great memories of when he was young and strong playing with abandon herding the boys as they were learning to walk. It will get better but its hard answering the boys questions about why he died and wont come back. The advice we got was to not sugar coat it or use euphemisms like he has gone to sleep but just be blunt and not provide a lot of details. Finn keeps asking if we can get a new dog with silky ears for him to hold when he drinks his milk. Liam just stares at the photos and I ask him to pick the ones out where he thinks Sully is happy.
Yesterday my wife bought one of those ridiculous giant 5 foot stuffed teddy bears from Costco. She said the boys need something to cuddle with. This morning Finn who liked to stroke Sullys ears when drinking milk or to calm himself was telling the neighbours like any four and a half year old all the latest information including how Sully was dead. Suddenly he turned to me and said "Dad I need to go up to my room and pet the bear" I dont think he realized that talking about Sully made him sad but he knew when he felt that way in the past he always had Sully to pet to make him feel better. That almost broke me again watching him sit quietly next to this giant teddybear stroking its ear. The bear is a poor substitute but it worked and he did feel better later.
The next couple of days will be tough maybe more on me than anyone else since I was used to taking care of Sully the most. I loved taking him up in the woods especially after a storm. Yesterday we had a big intense thunderstorm and I automatically started looking for Sullys leash so we could go up and see if any trees had been knocked down and smell the earth after a sudden drenching rain. I had to stop myself calling for him several times. I just sat on his sleeping mat up on the office because it smelled of him (quite stinky) instead. It really hit me while I was sitting there that the all the hours I spend in the office working from home I will truly be alone now. No more nudging me for an ear scratch or gentle snoring filling the room as I type away on emails.
There will be another dog in the future but there will not be another Sully
Con
^That is gut wrenching. I hope typing on here alleviates the pain somewhat for you.
Sorry, Con.
There just aren't words when you lose a best bud.
Con, I'm terribly sorry to hear this. :'(
I've had to say goodbye to a few of my Boxers over the years, from the time I was a kid on. It is never easy and you remember them always. Honestly, I'd rather spend time with my dogs than all but a very few people in the entire world. You can count on dogs.
But never forget that Sully was able to count on you. He did, right up until the last. You took care of him right to the end, and he knew it. He went out knowing he was loved and your friend, and that he had a family that loved him. You did right by that dog. Your boys will have learned a lot by that.
This sucks. No way to make it better. But you can always have Sully there with you, in your head, after every storm when you walk in the woods.
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Con, I'm terribly sorry to hear this. :'(
I've had to say goodbye to a few of my Boxers over the years, from the time I was a kid on. It is never easy and you remember them always. Honestly, I'd rather spend time with my dogs than all but a very few people in the entire world. You can count on dogs.
But never forget that Sully was able to count on you. He did, right up until the last. You took care of him right to the end, and he knew it. He went out knowing he was loved and your friend, and that he had a family that loved him. You did right by that dog. Your boys will have learned a lot by that.
This sucks. No way to make it better. But you can always have Sully there with you, in your head, after every storm when you walk in the woods.
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What he said.
Losing a pet who is loved by it's family is terribly hard. While I've had to go through it more than once, I comfort myself knowing that that my pet friends had a better life because they were cared for and loved. My condolences... :(
I'm really sorry to hear of your loss. I've parted company with much loved pets several times, and it's never easy. I feel for you and your family. :(
Hi guys
Sorry didn't mean to be a bummer but it was somewhat cathartic to write down what I was feeling/going through. I've been spending some time sorting through pictures and I had forgotten how many good times on hiking trips and vacations and just in general we had with him. My wife keeps telling me it was a blessing in many ways since we were gearing up for a big dog to have a serious decline in health. We had bought a ramp for stairs etc but I was the only one strong enough to really lift him when he was sick. He was beginning to get some pretty big back and neck pain that would randomly flair up (common in big breed dogs). My wife works as an anesthesiologist and she keeps repeating to me that the way he died is pretty painless you just get drowsy and slowly loose consciousness with blood loss. It was also a pretty obvious decision that there was no way to save him or if we tried to that it would not have been for his benefit but for ours and been only a misery to him (my wife knows the reality of these situations).
His last week was as good as it could have been without us knowing this moment was going to happen.
We had a ton of family members staying with us the last two weeks (mostly teenage girls who petted him so hard his fur hurt and he spent most of the time on his back demanding belly rubs from them)
I slipped him some raw hamburger on the sly during the week (my wife didnt like that since it could upset his stomach) She then told me she had done the same as well! So he got some high quality prime beef to munch on from both of us (we both told him not to tell the other he could always keep a secret). The day before he died I took him to doggy daycare (not something I do often but when I have meetings that run late etc I bring him there). This is one of his happiest places to go where he could sniff many butts and play with other dogs always one of his favorite things to do. I got back from a business trip from Ireland on Sunday so I wasnt away when it happened which would have devastated me not to be there to say goodbye. He didn't lie alone I was there with him and he knew I was there with him to the end. If I had to choose a way to go it would have ticked all these boxes also.
I wanted to end with this post to show its a sad day but I didnt want to end this as a bummer of a post. It makes me feel better writing down all the good things that happened near the end and that as hard as loosing him is he lived and died well.
Con
His first weeks
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I can't think of a better reason to have a forum than as catharsis for its members.
Agreed. And those are some awesome, happy pics. Good show, Con.
Four years ago yesterday I lost my last pug. I wouldn't let the vet have them. I buried all 5 together in the side-yard in a nice shady spot along with a little pug figurine and a, "Pugs On Guard" sign. I still go out and talk to them sometimes-- usually after a drink. Catharsis completed. :'(
That's an awesome last week.
We've had to say goodbye to several critters over the years, and it's never easy. We had a schnauzer in renal failure, a dalmatian with Cushing's, and a great dane who made it almost to 12 years old. Our current guys are a 3-1/2 y/o Great Dane who is luvable lunk that always manages to be underfoot, and a 9-y/o cat who is quite the puking asshole.
Is the cat's name Star?
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Is the cat's name Star?
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I gotta say yesterday wasn't as bad as Con's having to say goodbye to a great friend, but it was pretty shitty, as days go. Not going to go into details here, but I don't wish one of those days on anyone
Sorry to hear that Brant. When I used to have a bad night at work, depending how bad it got, I would go into 'Survival' mode and try to just get through it. The next night would be better-- how could it not? After Hurricane Charlie in 2004, we were without power for 2 weeks. I cut tree limbs out of the yard in the morning, then go into work early to take a shower because we had no water, then work like a sled dog all night because it was summer and we were short of staff, then fill-up about 15 water jugs before driving 42 miles back home, then when I got home about mid-night, go out and fill-up the portable generator with gas to keep the food in the fridge from spoiling. No TV, no radio, no AC, no GAMING. There were no good days during that time but there were days that could've been at lot worse. I saw people that had no roof... or power, so I felt lucky. The good day was when I heard the hum that meant the power was back on and we had beat the worst Charlie had thrown at us.
I am sorry to hear you are having a tough time as well Brant. I really took solace in having a place to write what I was feeling since I couldn't really share it with my kids (they are too young to understand and strong emotions in their parents is supposed to be upsetting for them as well). I come back and re read the post that I wrote on how Sully last week was and every time I read it and look at him it does make me feel better. I went back to look at photos and I had forgotten all the great hikes and camping trips we did with him. I am still grieving but I can feel that its getting significantly better each day and the memories of seeing him young and strong and happy bring a smile to me.
Con
For me, whether mourning a great canine or human friend, it never goes away but the grief becomes a manageable part of your everyday shit.
BB I don't know wtf is going on with you but I hope things get better.
So minding my own business while waiting to make a left turn into a parking lot. Low and behold I see an 18 wheeler truck trying to turn from the lane to my right to go into the southbound lane past me. I muse to myself that he looks like he cut that turn awfully tight and then I watch as his back tires of his trailer climb up over my car crushing it like a tin can while simultaneously dragging me backwards into the brand new chevy truck that was behind me also waiting to turn into the lot.
So lots of splintering plastic and metal sounds later I kick my way out of the car luckily no injuries but the car looks like it could possibly be a total wreck. So through no fault of my own apart from legally being in the wrong place at the wrong time I now have to deal with maybe having to buy a new car when that was the last thing we needed financially was this since my wife is quitting full time work to go back to school for her PhD.
with a big dose of luck the assessor will declare the car fit for repair and not a write off otherwise we will have to cross that bridge when we come to it. The bottom line is I am ok the kids were not in the car with me and if the driver of the truck had cut his turn a half second later I wouldn't be worrying about buying a new car because his back tires would have climbed through my windshield onto me thus causing my health insurance to kick in. However this summer of Hell is going into the record books
Con
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Jesus...glad you are ok. Wouldn't you rather it declared a total loss as not to have to deal with any issues in the future? In January I was praying the assessor would write off my car (even though I loved it) and luckily he did.
Damn! Glad you are ok, brother. I had an aunt who watched helplessly as an 18 wheeler rolled backwards into her car, smashing it and forcing her backwards into another car before stopping. Damn student drivers!!!
Hopefully the trucking company is well insured. With any luck, you might be a new rig owner.
I am honestly still undecided what is the better course of action re write off or repair.
This next year will be very tight financially for us between my wife going back to school and having to pay for twin boys 4 days a week at pre K in an expensive town just outside of Boston. The car was in excellent condition, ran great I looked after it very well all maintenance etc upto date and had just put several thousand into it a couple of months ago for preventative stuff like new headlights etc. So I felt pretty confident I could get another three years out of it. So if they can fix it then I am leaning to getting it back. On the other hand if the frame is bent then there is no way this car will ever run well again plus now it had a major accident on its title it will be hard to sell privately and for future trade in value the dealership will know I am between rock and a hard place. Between the price of replacing it with the newest model and what I would get for it from my insurance I am out of pocket about 30K. So its not an easy decision yet. Really pissed that all that insurance I pay even when there is nothing I did wrong wont actually get me back into a similar car. Somehow that feels wrong to me but I guess I have never had a major accident before otherwise I wouldn't be surprised at the royal screwing I am now receiving.
Con
I am really OK surprisingly blase about how close I came to a pretty bad outcome but for someone who is a worrier (myself) dodging this bullet really hasn't bothered me. I will say I did go to the local brewery (after this was all said and done and I had finished putting in the insurance claim) with a colleague from work who drove me home and had two very satisfying flambec ales.
I honestly dont know what I will get out of the truck drivers insurance I am guessing it wont be anew car though. He is a Russian living in Alabama and just wasn't concentrating on the road because he was unfamiliar with this area in Boston. It wasn't malicious or due to drinking etc it was a true accident. Still it sucks.
Con
holy balls dude. glad you're OK and not for nothing, but I'd totally file suit against the driver/company to cover the difference between whatever the insurance is giving you and what the replacement cost of the car would be
Damn, Con. Glad you're okay and nobody got hurt.
I once witnessed a guy pull out of a parking lot right under an 18-wheeler's trailer, and its back wheels of course ran right over the engine compartment of his car, flattening it. I think the guy was drunk, but damn, it just underlines how much damage those behemoths can do. Especially if their driver isn't experienced or all that good a driver.
Damn Con. You really are having a bad summer aren't you? But you're right to consider that, bad as it is, it could've been far worse. Like you said the kids weren't in the car, or your wife. And you could have been easily badly injured or left them entirely. Of course you'd be in Heaven with Sully but that will come when it's supposed to. And we'd be out an excellent Grog Poster as well. If it makes you feel any better, I just found-out I'm going to be out about $3500-$5500 for a new septic drain field. Shitty Deal just to have a Shitty Field I say. But you gotta just roll with the punches sometimes Man.
Wish I had some sage advice on the car deal, but, I'm just glad you are ok. The car is replaceable.
I know how you feel about rolling with the punches. After years of no real emergencies this year the central air went out on the house right at the start of an 8 day heatwave in Boston. I got convinced to replace it because it was a 10 year old Freon unit and since Freon has gotten banned for manufacturing just repairing it would have cost $1500+ with no guarantee that something else old will fail on it. Plus I was worried at the time the house would be too hot for Sully so I caved and got it replaced for $4k along with a set of new stairs and front and back of the house (needed due to rot) but I also wanted to build them less steeply so he could climb up and down easier. All these plans and money spent so that we could all enjoy his twilight years together and the inconsiderate SOB decides to just kick off with no warning :(. (just kidding I have his ashes in the office with me on a shelf next to where he lay and slept as I worked). We are gathering our friends for one last walk with Sully up in the woods he loved and we will scatter them up there (hopefully it will piss the squirrels off he sure did want to catch them).
Plus I buy my dog food in bulk and now I have 4 50lb bags of expensive dog food (at least I found a good home for that I am giving it to a shelter).
I have gone from being fiscally conservative to just hemorrhaging money out of the emergency fund but I guess that why its the emergency fund but damn it hurts to spend it all at once.
Con, I'm late to the party here but I'm glad you are ok. As Dawg said- the car can be replaced. Yourself- not so much.
We had our A/C go out last summer, too. We have a home warranty company that we had gotten just shortly before, thank goodness, because it paid for the bulk of it, but it ended up costing us about 3K total, whereas it would have been closer to 10K+ without the home warranty.
It took them, though, about three weeks, so we had to deal with a house in Southeast Texas in the summertime RIGHT at the start of a heat wave (and one of the worst ones ever, too, of course) for that entire time. It was utterly miserable.
I forgot. And, I'm getting my AC checked today. Probably more $$$$. This is the kind of thing that would send me into days of silent anger and Persecution Complex-Thinking when I was younger. Now I realize it's not the end of the world. My wife and I have got the money and or credit we need at this stage in our life so we'll be OK. Still, It's not much fun though. Handling things like this calmly makes me look good in front of the Wife and does give me a good reason to have a Manly drink and then cuss some. :tickedoff:
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As for the money thing, seems we've all had a similar crunch lately. Last year we paid the residual on our car loan, new shingles, got a new furnace and a new in-line water heater... all in about 3 months... about $18k! It really does smart when it hits all at once..... Now to slowly build up the cushion for the next round.....
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As for the money thing, seems we've all had a similar crunch lately. Last year we paid the residual on our car loan, new shingles, got a new furnace and a new in-line water heater... all in about 3 months... about $18k! It really does smart when it hits all at once..... Now to slowly build up the cushion for the next round.....
Sounds like our summer this year - New roof ($20K), new tankless water heater ($5K), water softener ($2K), and then I had to buy a new car after my son's car got totaled and I handed mine down to him. We also had the deck painted and some other work around the house, but that was all incidental compared to the rest. Two kids in college, too. We did the roof, water heater, and water softener all within a week's time.
But everyone is healthy and doing well, no one injured in car accidents or anything else. I'll consider that a victory.
It's a good thing gaming is getting cheaper. ;D
Con are you and I related? The damage that totaled my car earlier this year was identical to yours but on the passenger side. It also happened at highway speed. My adjustor said that if it was not a Subaru I may not have been lucky enough to walk away. In spite of all that I kind of chalked it up to dumb luck too and went on with life. Passing that spot on the road still makes me a little nervous but that's it. From experience I would still say you definitely want the car declared a total loss. It's just easier.
And my a/c has been acting up too!
I feel your pain.
Ugh thats scary to hear it was totaled. I am still crossing my fingers that it can be repaired but if that frame is bent I am toast. Seeing all these other tales of woe makes me feel better that I am not the only one having to deal with sucky days. But I do wonder based on the number of stories if us Grogs are getting singled out. If life is a balance someone here should win the next $500 Million lottery and be able to build a palatial Grog Gaming palace stocked with the best painted lead figures, craft beers and an ever flowing nacho cheese fountain.
Con
Con, won't your insurance cover a totaled car enough so that you can easily get another?
I've never totaled one myself (knock on wood), but everyone I've known that were lucky to get through an accident with no injuries prayed their car was totaled so they could get a new one.
Its a difference between the value you get for your car based on a formula and the cost of actually getting a car. My car was babied and I poured a lot of money in maintenance and drove it very easily had only 80K miles on it etc but it is an 08 model. We used it for all the family trips camping a lot of stuff needs to be hauled when it comes to kids and for the dog (which I do hpope to be getting another one when the time is right) so I would like a similar SUV. The blue book value for it is only around 20K. There are very few cars left available in this class/year so I will have to foot the difference between what I buy and what I get from the insurance agencies. A new car with the same features would cost 50K so that's a 30K auto loan. Of course I can get a used one but I am not a big fan of buying used cars (that attitude I think I am going to have to readjust based on these costs) but that's just the way I feel. My car drove and acted like a new one and I hate to be just given a check for some amount that wont even get me 30% of the way to a new car. Especially when there was nothing I was doing that was wrong and the huge amount of car insurance i have paid over the years and this is my first claim ever. I guess this is me whining (and its true I am) but I am just pissed off at the random unfairness of this when it wasn't my fault.
Con
This day sucks a little less.....the car was not totaled. I was told the difference in the airbags going off would have put the repair total over the cost so lucky for me the way he rode over my car missed the sensors in the front.
You know its an interesting week when you are grateful air bags didn't deploy
Con
That's true...good on you then, Con. About time you got good news...of a sort. ;)
Blimey Con, you're having a hell of a time. :'(
After all this crap going on you deserve a decent break. O0 Hopefully, your run of bad luck will soon change and you'll end up on a win cycle. :)
Care to tempt fate with a lottery ticket on the basis your luck is long overdue for a change? ;)
Good for you con. Just for reference, my airbags never popped either. But it was still totaled.
How long til you get the car back?
Just a quick update been dealing with a lot of things lately one of them having to do with the car. When they got it from the wrecker to the repair shop and opened it up they found massive amounts of damage, the engine got dropped, frame twisted etc so it has been totaled. I had to go yesterday and get my stuff from it and I was shocked how badly mangled it was (they had pulled all the front bumper off etc so you could get a really graphic view of the damage). The mechanic was like "Dude you shouldn't even be walking around" So even though this sucked donkey balls I have a new appreciation for car safety and the damage an 18 wheeler can do to you.
I am now actively car hunting. Was thinking about one of these. Lets see if this can give back better in a fight with an 18 wheeler
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Totaling the car is for the best.
I had a mazda years ago that got rear-ended and all you could see was a scuff on the back bumper. The appraiser would only give me enough to replace the plastic part of the bumper. Case closed... or so I thought. After about a year i noticed a lump under the rug in the cargo area (it was a hatchback) which turned out to be a wrinkle in the metal underneath. The wrinkle got progressively worse and I also started to wear out my tires unevenly a lot faster than normal. When I took it in for an alignment I was told that the entire car was actually out of true and while it was on the lift the mechanic showed me where the underbody itself was buckled, something not evident by just looking underneath while on the pavement. At that point there was not much I could do about it so i drove the car another year or so. Before I eventually sold it (dirt cheap with full disclosure) I was driving along a slow street when a loud bang went off and my side window exploded. I first thought that someone took a shot at me but it turned out the body was so distorted by then that the uneven stresses blew out the non-bendable glass.
The moral here? When a car has been in a serious accident all kinds of dangers could be lurking inside, hidden from sight, to only emerge later and strike.
Can you get financing on that Con? And how's the insurance rate on 30 cal. MG's? Where would you park it........ anywhere you want to.
I am still in the convincing the wife stage that it doesnt need to have latches for the kids seats because its armored :)
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