Missed everyone

Hi Mikimi... My family are huge animal lovers.  We have squirrels, raccoons (my daughter rescued 4 and brought them home), opossums, armadillo, a very small  feral cat colony we feed and lots of birds.  With the exception of my daughter's cats she brought when she moved back home, Dasie was our only strictly inside pet.  She was alpha and had us all wrapped around her paw, and she knew it.

I am terribly sorry for your loss!  I am a firm believer in getting another one.  I think that your love for another pet multiplies rather than divides and you have so much to offer a new pet.  I lost my 20 yo cat this spring and just got a new baby kitten and I just love her so much!  

All the best to you!

Dasie,

It has been awhile and welcome back to the boards.  I read your post yesterday but just could not respond at the time.  It was much too emotional for me.  I sympathize and I also empathize.

For a number of years my husband and I had four dogs.  Within the course of nine months, three of them developed different forms of cancer and had to be put to sleep.  We lost Pharoah who was almost 12 to bone cancer in November 2011. Then we lost Sally our 13 year old Golden Retriever in February of this year.  Then if that was bad enough we lost our 14.5 year old black ****er in July 2012.  Each time I cried like a baby.  Everyone in the et's office was going us hugs and encouragement.  They were really great. This left our 8 year old  German Shepherd Tag very "out of it" and lethargic.  All of our dogs were rescue dogs except Pharoah (my son left him with us when he could not take him to grad schhool with him back in 2001).

We had already decided that we were not going to get another dog right then...we would just wait. Then in late August my step-daughter called to say that she was having a landlord problem and needed to find a home for her animals.  We agreed to take Mocha who is 7.  She is or looks like a Chocolate Lab but only weighs about 49 lbs.  Mocha and Tag bonded quickly and her presence has made a big difference for him and us.

Despite the fact that Tag and Mocha are healthy and happy, not a day goes by that I don't think of the other 3, as they were truly a part of our family.  The wounds are healing gradually but I still miss all of them dearly.  In time I hope this will get better.  I pray for your continued healing.  I know it is rough.

Please take the steps necessary to get your supplements in.  You have done so well I would not want to see you develop any deficiencies. 

Welcome back and hang in there.