Member's Pets

[CaptainHappy]

Hey there Folks,

Sorry that I have not been on the site for a little while. Since I couldn't sleep I thought that I would share this with you all since so many of you are so Pet Friendly, and have seen and enjoyed the pictures that I have shared in the past of my Sister's "Lap" dogs Angel and Jasper that live with her and my Mom back in Sparks. I refer to them as my NIECE and NEPHEW!

It is with sad regret that I have to tell you all that Angel passed away yesterday morning. Early in the morning after I had just gotten back from my weekend getaway to visit Buzz, Stat and ashyron, I was awoken with a troubling phone call from my Mom and Sister in clear distress and extreme sadness because Angel had just died. She was a little ill the previous evening with stomach ache and she was just up and down restless. She was drinking alot of water that she later threw up. I was checking in on her on my drive home and she was a little restless but cuddly as usual. Then suddenly in the morning she got up and walked uneasily over by my Mom and layed down, tried her best to wag her tail and lift her head up and gasped a bit and died. I was in shock as everything happened so suddenly and Angel was only 7 or 8 years old! I felt so helpless as there was nothing that I could do since they are over 600 miles away. Additionally my mom can't lift Angel, nor could my Sister, Kymberly, as she just had major surgery just last week and is home recovering. Angel was around 75 pounds, and got on your lap like she was a little lap dog that weighs 10 lbs. I tried to call a friend up there to see if he could go move her for them, but I couldn't reach him right away. We were able to arrange for a animal service that comes and takes care of this for you.

We have no idea what happened, but at least it happened relatively quickly as compared to a long and drawn out painful sickness. I have to believe that things happen for a reason, but it was just so shocking and surprising to us to get hit with this so unexpectedly. Poor Jasper will be lonley as he was a puppy when we got him and he grew up with Angel. I thought that I would share a few of my favorite pictures her. The first two are of one of my favorite days with Angel and my Sister on my boat when Angel was pretty young, and Jasper was not in the picture yet. Sorry for the bad news.

Mark

[CaptainHappy]

Angel loved sticks logs and braches of all kinds to play with and chew on, but she did it "Bigger" than most dogs do!!! Here are a couple of my favorites...

[CaptainHappy]

Here is a picture of Angel on my couch when they all visited me for Thanksgiving last November 2009.

It feels good to share these couple PICs. Thanks for looking!

Mark

[jrsyjohn]

mark,i am so sorry to hear that.if there is anything i can do please let me know.i have my pooch name sarge and he means the world to me! i know how you must feel. best to you. john

[reho33]

My condolences to you , we have 5 cats here. I was told that larger dogs only live to about 7 or 8. It's the smaller dogs that live longer. But I thing John toomanynumbers, the Rudy's Deals guy loved his dog also and that it passed about 6 months ago? (I don't really know). But his dog's face appears in everything he has on the website. I know what it is to lose pets, it sucks!

[Ron (r273)]

Our pets make this world a little more enjoyable. They seem to know things about us we don't realize. They know
when you are sick, they know how to pull your string, they know how to make you give in. So many things they do
to make us smile. You can not measure the grief from a loss of a pet. They are truly a part of the family. I am sincerely
sorry to hear of your loss of Angel.

And as you said the only good thing Angel did not suffer to long.

Ron (r273)


 

[KirkLasVegas]

These two "Bark-O-Matics" are specially trained to take burglars down at the ankles!
One of them like to play pinball and likes solitare on the computer...smart doggies..


Kirk

[ROCKET]

cute little guys ..there they could double as door stops !!
 later i will post my dogs past and present !!

woof woof

[drunktek]

Heres my kelly

[stayouttadabunker]

The best thing to do Capt, is get another puppy for Jasper to play with.
Jasper will be considered the old dog now!
She needs a playmate...

I swear I saw a horse cry once when the older one died.
We ended up getting another pony and and now both
Thunder and Lightning are happier than two peas in a pod!

[Bettor Slots]

Mark....sorry to hear about the loss.  I had to put down Ottie who had been with me for 19 years recently so I feel your pain.  I come from a big family of pet lovers in fact my Mom ran her own pet sitting service for 20+ years.  LOL...I can remember at one time growing up we had 8 cats, 2 dogs, and yessir....2 possums that lived in the garage.

Pics below of one of my current companions, Maximus or Max for short.  He's a Maincoon which are famous for being quite large where a standard cat might be 10 to 12 pounds he weighs in at a womping 26 pounds.  The thing is that he is all muscle....don't mess with the Max!!!  You can see his mass when comparing his proportions to my wife who is average build.  He was originally bred back in the Mayflower days to keep the rats on the ships at bay.  Max has been great at that as we live in a rural area and we always find him with mice in the spring and fall....LOL....he likes to pick them up in his mouth and fling them at the walls.  He's a good little kitty that earns his keep.

[stayouttadabunker]

lol...I agree, I wouldn't mess with Max either but he ain't no "kitty" - he's more like a lion! 

[ashyron]

Mark.  That's terrible news and I am so sorry to hear that.  As you know we only have a couple animals left. 

I had to put my dog down about 5 years ago when he kept having siezures, he was 16 years old.  I had to put Dad's dog down last September and he was 20 years old.  The cat and bird belong to my brother and thank goodness cause that bird is a hately little thing.  I think you probably realized that when you were here.   

Anyway, here are a couple pics of the b1rd.  His name is Maynard and he is 27 years old.  Sometimes we call him Stinky.  The second pic  is after he decided to bathe.

[ashyron]

And here's Corky the cat.  He's 13 this past December and is pretty lazy.  He's got it made and hates being outside.  It freaks him out.  Did you know that 98% of orange cats are male? 

[stayouttadabunker]

I love the second pic!!

[ashyron]

I love the second pic!!

    That is kind of what it looks like huh??  Actually, he covers his nose all the time when he is cold.  It's his way of staying warm.  Ya know I am not much of a cat person, I am a dog lover myself, but Corky is the coolest cat.  He loves to play and rough house and the more you terrorize him the more fun he has.  He has been known to get so excited during playtime that he hisses and runs off and then comes back to finish.  HAHA

[JOHN42355]

Mark , I am so Sorry to here about your loss. You know for a FACT that my prayers and condolences Are there for you and your family . I know what you are going through and the hurt you must feel , as I still have a hard time without "RUDY" and I just can't understand WHY?. Mark I do feel your PAIN and sorrow. Also Mark ,Please Remember The GOOD TIMES with Angel !!!
 It HELPS my friend. Again I am so sorry to see this post on that bad news.
                                                                                    God Bless You , John

[jay]

I feel for your loss..... they are rarely pets but members of the family.

[Karaoke Mike]

Sorry for your loss. I feel your pain. It took my family awhile to get over the loss of our Ginger. She was a 12 year old Pom and had been suffering so, she went on to a better place. Here is a picture a year before she became sick.
Now we have had Wriglee for 2 years. He is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel  = stinker.....

[jrsyjohn]

here is my buddy sarge getting ice. if i could only teach him to get the beer, letterman here i come!
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/MGhxd6Ar8So&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/MGhxd6Ar8So&rel=0</a>

[stayouttadabunker]

That's funny! He's left-handed as well !

[cowboygames]

Mark, so sorry for your loss. Me and Abby(my avatar) send our condolences. How unfortunate we get so little time to provide a good life for a creature that so appreciates everything we do for them. Abby just turned 2 a few days ago and I am not looking forward to the day when I won't be able to spoil her anymore.
Someone once said "If you wanna know who your best friend is, put your wife and dog in the trunk of your car and when you come back 2 hours later see which one is glad to see you"

[CaptainHappy]

Thanks everyone for their well wishes! It has been really tough on my sister! She just called again a few minutes ago and told me that Jasper has been sad, and that every so often he goes and looks around everywhere for Angel, then sits at the front door and whimpers! It kills me! We had expected to get at least 13-15 years out of Angel. It is hard for me because I do not live with them all of the time, but they love me that much more when I come to visit. I should figure out how to get some videos onto the computer from DVDs that I made to post here so you can see how excited they would get when I sneak in the garage to try to surprise them after being away for a few months. They usually dog pile on me after knocking me down on the couch and then they crawl all over me lick attacking me for a long while.

Angel was very vocal and she would listen to me on the phone and she would talk back over the phone, and we would "talk" back and forth for a while! She definately recognized my voice, and I was forbidden from leaving messages on the home answering machine as the dogs usually went crazy after hearing me leave a message. I was not there to clean up the mess that they made. HA HA!   My friends thought that I am crazy!  I was just last week considering getting a webcam to set up and see how she would react. My Mom was afraid that they would go after the TV if they saw me in it! When they watch TV and see dogs on it they get up and bark and run at the TV.... When the dogs are off the TV they start looking around everywhere for the dogs that they saw. The TV is on the wall by the stairs, so they would go up the stairs looking for the TV dogs there!

It is nice seeing everyone post their beloved animals! Thanks for sharing! K+ to all here!!!!! That is why I started this thread and called it "MEMBER'S PETS" I felt so bad when I heard about when you guys had lost your pets, and I saw that you got comfort in hearing from other pet lovers, so now we have a thread to show off our little friends!! Hopefully more of the good than the bad! I like seeing amazonian sized cats, Birds that scared me and begged for some of my pizza, and dogs getting ice cubes, and the like! I like all kinds of animals, and I think that they know it and have me pegged as a sucker! They know that they can get treats, love and attention out of me.!

Thanks again folks!

CH

[a69mopar]

Hi Mark,
   I'm very sorry to hear about Angel.  Our pets can be such a big part of our lives, and it's sad that they have such a short lifespan.

My condolences,
Wayne

[OhioGaming]

Sorry to hear about your family (Angel). Have been there before and will again.

The smallest and largest of the gang.