Mini schnauzer has cancer...

[ramonesfreak]

Originally Posted by CurtEgerer

We lost one of our Schnauzers last year. Lymphoma. Vet gave her a few weeks. She lasted 3 months. I told the vet that she seemed to be normal (eating, playing, etc.). right up to the last week or so. He said 'she doesn't know she's sick' Saddest thing I ever heard.



We adopted a 4-year old Schnauzer earlier this year and it has helped with the loss tremendously. There may be another dog out there that needs your help ....

we got another mini schnauzer one year ago today actually he is a handful and. i didn't want another dog but, i think the new dog has actually helped our other sick dog cope with the loss. she loves playing with the new one and has been very motherly towards him. now when the sick dog dies, do i get the new dog a new friend? the cycle continues and has its rewards but wow is it emotionally draining

[Don Ro]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

we got another mini schnauzer one year ago today actually he is a handful and. i didn't want another dog but, i think the new dog has actually helped our other sick dog cope with the loss. she loves playing with the new one and has been very motherly towards him. now when the sick dog dies, do i get the new dog a new friend? the cycle continues and has its rewards but wow is it emotionally draining

I first had two Tibetan Terriers as an adult (allergic to dogs as a child) when I was about 30 yrs. old.
12 - 13 years later I put them both down 30 days apart - cancer.
I fell off the floor with deep grief to the point where I felt that there was something more there than pet loss. Sure enough, old childhood losses had come back to visit me.
I held off the urge to get another dog until I felt that those old issues were at least acknowledged and hopefully resolved..."felt through", as the psych community calls it.
So my first pet loss became a spiritual path for me and I am so grateful for that.
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I would suggest to anyone who wants to relieve the pain of pet loss - by getting another pet - to first take a look at their heartache to see if something from the past is wanting to surface.
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I would also suggest getting two pups...nothing quite like seeing two pups rolling and tumbling with each other.
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I'll share what I wrote about two months after putting my first dog down.
My tribute to Augie:
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The moments in life are fleeting.
I will never again smell that provocative aroma that I knew as Augie...
never again will I look into those loving eyes.
Now I know why being in the Present is so important...
it's the most we can do to capture what is actual, what is real.
Yet even then, being in, and capturing, the present moment, the experience can leave as quickly as it arrives...
and the capture is ephemeral.
It's pure luxury to drink up those moments as they arrive and unfold...
unsettling as they fade, and agony when they are no longer to be.
Only memory, with its distant and faint touch, is left...
no more the pure form of Presence within the actuality of real experience...
Just memory...
and memory can only be a representation of the actual...of the real.
Such is life and its fleeting ways.

[ForBell]

Originally Posted by Don Ro

I'll share what I wrote about two months after putting my first dog down.
My tribute to Augie:
~~~~~~~~~~
.
The moments in life are fleeting.
I will never again smell that provocative aroma that I knew as Augie...
never again will I look into those loving eyes.
Now I know why being in the Present is so important...
it's the most we can do to capture what is actual, what is real.
Yet even then, being in, and capturing, the present moment, the experience can leave as quickly as it arrives...
and the capture is ephemeral.
It's pure luxury to drink up those moments as they arrive and unfold...
unsettling as they fade, and agony when they are no longer to be.
Only memory, with its distant and faint touch, is left...
no more the pure form of Presence within the actuality of real experience...
Just memory...
and memory can only be a representation of the actual...of the real.
Such is life and its fleeting ways.

no words! wow.