What did you do with your pet when they died?

[tonysingh]

My dog, my Rhodesian ridgeback, named Jezebel died Saturday. My girlfriend and I had had a day out and we came home to find her gone. I'm on a low income so the only people I could think of to call were the PDSA. There's no way I wanted to bury her in the backyard, not here, not when we're moving soon anyway. I took her favourite scratchy blanket with her and the vet there asked if I wanted a post mortem done on her. I said no, and I know this sounds silly but I did not want her violated in that way. The vet said she was 90% sure it was bloat anyway, they had treated her for a close call from it a year or so back now. I am so eternally grateful to the PDSA and the nurses and vet at the place here in Medway for how they were. The time they gave my girlfriend and I to say goodbye in the room was much needed. Both my missus and said our goodbyes and we shed more than a few tears.


I'm in absolute bits now about it still which I realise is daft for a hairy arsed bloke, but Jezebel was everything to me. On the morning after she died, on the sunday, I went to walk her, then realised all over again she was gone. I was in Tesco earlier and picked up some of her favourite treats and felt her loss again. I held her harness and leash earlier and can still smell her on it. I cant get the thought that I wasn't right there with her when she died out of my mind.

Pets really can touch your heart.

sorry.

 

[Epona]

My dog, my Rhodesian ridgeback, named Jezebel died Saturday. My girlfriend and I had had a day out and we came home to find her gone. I'm on a low income so the only people I could think of to call were the PDSA. There's no way I wanted to bury her in the backyard, not here, not when we're moving soon anyway. I took her favourite scratchy blanket with her and the vet there asked if I wanted a post mortem done on her. I said no, and I know this sounds silly but I did not want her violated in that way. The vet said she was 90% sure it was bloat anyway, they had treated her for a close call from it a year or so back now. I am so eternally grateful to the PDSA and the nurses and vet at the place here in Medway for how they were. The time they gave my girlfriend and I to say goodbye in the room was much needed. Both my missus and said our goodbyes and we shed more than a few tears.


I'm in absolute bits now about it still which I realise is daft for a hairy arsed bloke, but Jezebel was everything to me. On the morning after she died, on the sunday, I went to walk her, then realised all over again she was gone. I was in Tesco earlier and picked up some of her favourite treats and felt her loss again. I held her harness and leash earlier and can still smell her on it. I cant get the thought that I wasn't right there with her when she died out of my mind.

Pets really can touch your heart.

sorry.

It's not at all daft, we all love our pets, even people who are hairy arsed blokes, and are allowed to feel devastated when they are gone.

I'm sorry for your loss