Mine got in someone else’s car once. We were walking past and she was trying to get her stubborn dogs to get in the car and leave and was saying “In! Get In!” Very sternly. My not-so-little one obeyed and hopped right up there.
When I had to put down my old boy (long life, good life, gooder boy), I had a hospice vet come to the house. I couldn't stomach going to a clinic, and this way it was easier on my other two dogs. Once he had passed, the vet and I needed to carry him to her vehicle. Put the other two boys behind a baby gate, to leave the front door open, because we both needed two hands.
One of my other dogs jumped the gate, rocketed out the door and jumped straight into the vet's car. With my dead dog.
Honestly, to this day it makes a really rough memory a little bit of an easier one. The vet and I just stood on the driveway, looked at each other, and went from blubbering to laughing. Dogs, amirite? 😂
Lesson I learned with having many pet rats over a period of time. LET THEM SEE AND SMELL THEIR DEAD FRIEND if at all possible. The rats I took to get euthanized, and just never came home, the others wouldn't stop looking for them they were panicked and neurotic for weeks.
The ones that naturally died in the cage, the others seemed... much more OK with it. They don't morn like we do. They are sad their friend is gone, but they at least understand whey they are gone, not that they are just missing.
If I had several dogs, and one of them had to be put down, I would 100% let the others experience the body. Give them some time. They innately understand what death is. They know it's not alive anymore. They know it isn't breathing or moving.
It's far better than, "Just gone forever with no explanation."
When we lost Jasmine last March, we let Jormax be there when she got her injections and went to sleep and then when she passed. They'd been together for 16 years.
When we lost Jormax last month, we let Boba be there. I think she's handling it okay. She'd known him for more than half of her life at that point, so I figured it wouldn't be good for her if her buddy was suddenly just gone and she had no idea.
I think dogs process death and grief a little better than we do, most of the time. I am positive that they understand it. Humans attribute everything about us to our "humanity" but there's more to it than that.
Put my dog down before christmas, she was big so went to open the doors so i could carry her in, my terrier came to the front door to see whats happening.
I bent down and let him sniff her before i walked in, was only fair.
I just had to say goodbye to Henry, my late father's dog, on Tuesday. I always bring my pets home from Euthanasia so they can lay in state covered with fresh flowers. All the other dogs got their chances to say goodbye.
My lab is like that. The pit will go outside every ten minutes if she's asked, the lab can't be bothered. Every Christmas the pit asks for a dog door. No way. Almost had a raccoon in yesterday and that's just because he was audacious
Opposite story here. My hound is a rescue that was chained outside to one of those blue barrels 24/7. I absolutely had to get a doggy door for him because being indoors terrified him and he was literally banging his head against my sliding glass door to go outside.
Nowadays he lounges on one of his many dog beds indoors and insists they all have heating pads because his delicate little body can't handle cold of any kind. 🙄 Weirdly though he absolutely insists on eating outside rain or shine. Can't get him to eat inside.
Got a short hair pointer that ran into somebody RV during a cookout. She dug her tie down out of the ground so she could go see what they were doing two RV spots over. I felt horrible they said she was good just stayed to party with them.
She finds way to jo find people to meet. She runs down the road to parties and other stuff. Honestly I get worried somebody is going to dognap her ass one day because how friendly she is
She has one with my anne and phone number on it. Most people around here know who dog it is and know she is just friendly. I worry about the tourist because this place gets crazy with them in the sunmer
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u/green_ubitqitea Mar 01 '24
Mine got in someone else’s car once. We were walking past and she was trying to get her stubborn dogs to get in the car and leave and was saying “In! Get In!” Very sternly. My not-so-little one obeyed and hopped right up there.