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What pets have you had? Post pics of your pets, previous or now. Why do I love my pet so much?

Thanks for sharing pics and vid of Frisby. It was nice to see him cooling off with a swim and rolling around on a hot day.

Our Lucy has, apart from color, the appearance of an NSDTR and is a natural water retriever. She rolls like that after a swim and loves to be toweled dry when we get home. Your video of Frisby looks so similar.
Pls give a tender cuddle to Lucy. You are happy to have such a sweet dog ;-)
For sure, Frisby enjoyed a last rub after the swim (not on video), then he did his last 30 meters and collapsed.
Not sure how to put it, if I would have directed his passing, it wouldn't have been much different, perhaps more comfortable for him/me to bring him back to the car/vet as it was in reality. I may assume that he went straight into a coma after collapsing.
For me, it helped a lot that I knew his diagnosis, even it was a bit difficult to realize when he was still moving in the water like a pro,
Thank you very much for your support !
 
Our boy is 11 - old for a rehomed racer, I am dreading the day we have to say goodbye to him. As Queen Elizabeth said - grief is the price we pay for love :(
Not a fan of monarchy I am, but this seens to be a correct equation, I used to say, for the enchanting puppy time we may pay with an undesirable loss.
 
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My condolences....

To maybe lighten the mood and completely change direction, here's a somewhat blurry photograph of a Neogonodactylus wennerae that has recently come under my care as a stowaway on some Gulf Live Rock that I purchased for the beginning of a reef aquarium, Although he won't go into the main display tank, I can't get rid off him now. Way too smart and endearing. View attachment 384148
Thank you Andrew, that made me grin a lot ...
 
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He not only understood quite a few English phrases, he could also say a few. For instance, he could say "Outside" when he wanted to go outside. It sounded more like "Rout Ride" (think Scooby Doo) but he would get the vowels right. For example he liked cheese, and his word for it was "Eeeeee." You could tell him "I love you", and he'd reply with three short syllables... he always forgot to add "too".

You could say his name and he'd immediately start purring. And when we'd feed him, he'd rub up against our legs to say "thank you" before starting to eat. Every time. I gotta stop now.
 
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Pls give a tender cuddle to Lucy.
Done!

She needed some extra care today because while I was at the animal shelter, where I go on Fridays to walk and companion the dogs, my wife took Lucy and Zeno, as is our routine, for a walk to the shelter to meet me. On their way a severe thunder storm came in and Lucy hates that so they returned home. When I got home Lucy was still worried so I got the towel and we did the thing and she perked up. Fireworks and skateboarders are her other big dislikes. Zeno learned to hate skateboarders from Lucy but is ok with the thunder.

You are happy to have such a sweet dog ;-)
We sure are.

For sure, Frisby enjoyed a last rub after the swim (not on video), then he did his last 30 meters and collapsed.
Not sure how to put it, if I would have directed his passing, it wouldn't have been much different, perhaps more comfortable for him/me to bring him back to the car/vet as it was in reality. I may assume that he went straight into a coma after collapsing.
For me, it helped a lot that I knew his diagnosis, even it was a bit difficult to realize when he was still moving in the water like a pro,
I was having thoughts along those lines earlier but didn't want to mention them. So many dogs suffer through cancer and that's always very distressing.

Just to share some impressions about Frisby ( I am a bit wee about that atm ..., pls excuse)
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From puppy to 11y
Thanks. Those are lovely photos. I got a bit teary.
 
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We lost our last Standard Poodle mid-September. To make matters worse it happened while we were in London. He had been declining, up and down, for quite a while but seemed to be on the up when we left. Just a little less than a week later he completely crashed and our dog/house sitter had to take him to our vet. Our house is empty and sad. The first time with no dogs for almost 40 years. And so far none of the breeders we've attempted to contact have been bothered to return our inquiries. :(
 
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We lost our last Standard Poodle mid-September. To make matters worse it happened while we were in London. He had been declining, up and down, for quite a while but seemed to be on the up when we left. Just a little less than a week later he completely crashed and our dog/house sitter had to take him to our vet. Our house is empty and sad. The first time with no dogs for almost 40 years. And so far none of the breeders we've attempted to contact have been bothered to return our inquiries. :(
Been there too many times, most recently with the incredible Great Pyr in my avatar.

So sorry.
 
I have had some interesting pets and have even eaten some of them. Yes, I'm a meat eater.
Growing up, my family & I raised English Springer Spaniel's (I always had one, regardless if he was a new one to me, his name was always Flush [as in "Flush the birds out"]. With the exception of one female (I guess that I am not supposed to use the proper term here) that I had that was not very smart.
All were like the one you went into the woods with.
If I picked up a gun (even if it was just my .38 that had been my grandfather's when he was a policeman [with snake shot in it for the first and every other round]), just to go walking alone in the woods, my dog was ready to go (and swim in the salt water creek or fresh water river). If I took the Jon Boat out, without them, they would jump off the dock & start swimming after me. If I picked up a rifle or a shotgun, they would be looking for where & what I might be shooting by the time we made it to the door.
Here, I want to be clear, I always say a little prayer and Thank The Lord for the sacrifice of the animal that I am about to kill that will provide us with natural sustenance (or a fish that I catch).
I do not "trophy hunt" (now, if it happens that I get such an animal, yes, their will be a bust of that animal) but that A. Has never happened & B. is not why I hunt.
If I am hunting it, it's because it will be on my dinner table, next to the vegetables (and potatoes or rice). And shared with other families.
Otherwise, unless I am being attacked, I leave it alone.
I had some other dogs, too. Ones that I rescued (a Doberman that thought he was a lapdog, a 1/2 beagle/1/2 lab [looked like a tall beagle with a lab head Frankensteined onto him], a Pit Bull that was given to my father as a companion when he was going through Alzheimer's that was scared of just about everything {move a chair & he would circle it and bark at it to try & make it go back were it belonged {he actually became my elderly mother's, as he would actually protect the elderly in my family}).
The occasional baby wild animal would come under my care (not exactly a pet, but they would have something wrong with them and human intervention [possibly including a trip to a wild life vet]) might help them grow up into an adult animal.
As to y'all's farm animals, a friend bought three acres of agricultural property around Vero Beach, Florida and he, having just been in a very bad tractor trailer accident (he ended up sitting in his tractor's seat, in a ditch 30 feet away from the truck). But, the property was required to be being used for agriculture. So he bought a steer. To be clear to younger folks that being a pet is not the intent, he named the steer "T-Bone".
Sorry, no pictures because I am not where I can access them.
 
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Kaiser (my current pup) in my university office protecting me from those awful students.

My daughter has 5 of this line. The chaos is unbelievable.
 
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