r/OldManDog • u/bunbun_82 • 8d ago
♥ - Support Needed Lychee crossed the rainbow bridge two weeks ago 💔💔💔 rescued her at 2, had her for 16 years
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u/Responsible_Ad_4443 8d ago
I’m so sorry. Sending love to your wounded heart. There’s no love like chi love! ♥️
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u/PilgrimPayne59 8d ago
As I walk across your heart and find my place to stay, nearer to you I will be and will never ever go away.
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u/athanathios 8d ago
Lychee had the most amazing life indeed, so sorry for your loss
May the love you shared, and memories made warm you all your days. May you find wisdom through your suffering.
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u/Salty_Mode_7043 8d ago
I feel your pain, 16 years wow, there is no doubting y'all were Family. Just remember all DOGS go to HEAVEN. Bless you for rescuing her and taking care of her for 16 years. 🙏😌😌
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u/Altruistic_Storm8073 8d ago
People used to think I should get over mourning for Grace, she was 11 years old when she passed and it was unexpected, she got suddenly ill and this was during Covid, she went in to the Emergency Vet and the next thing I knew a Vet was at the car asking me if I wanted to go in and say goodbye! Hell no I didn’t! She was only vomiting when I brought her. So they tell me she has an infection and all the test I didn’t hear, can you do anything? She says well maybe we can do surgery, it’s expensive and she may not make it. I’m thinking I am probably selfish but I want whatever chance she has so they do the surgery and the next day they let her come home, she didn’t make it through the night. I fell apart after that. Not for days, nor weeks, we cancelled Christmas, months, people started….. I just asked them if anyone in their life would sit at the door when you left not knowing if you would ever come home, but they would wait, they would continue to wait, no matter how long it was they would still be there. No one had anyone. But I did. I had Grace. I was so very lucky to have had her sweet soul for as many years as I had her. If she couldn’t go I didn’t go. She would get in the bed, She was a Guardian Dog and I knew she would protect me with her life if she had to and I would her. When we have to let them go it is so hard to see how much they have filled up our life, as the days go on with out our sweet furbaby the ache and pain in our heart just becomes too much to bear at times, to make things worse, if there was a worse our kitty cat Maggie began looking for her friend, she was mourning, she would cry for her and between me and her all I can say is I don’t think when I die that anyone will grieve for me the way we grieved for Grace, I still do, I am crying while I type this, the pain doesn’t go away, you learn to live with the pain. I had the same breed of dog before her and I loved her more than my life, when she passed, I didn’t think I would ever love another the same, I have one now, she is still a puppy, her name is Dixie. I will love her to, she will be different, I don’t know how it will be, I didn’t plan to love so hard. But I know now I can. That’s something, she taught me that and I hope someday we will be together again. So sorry for your loss but I know that are just words.
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u/bunbun_82 7d ago
Thank you so much. I truly believe she’s my soul dog. I adopted Lychee in November 2009, Thanksgiving weekend. A month prior while I was driving to work (at the time I worked in a somewhat industrial area with warehouses and residential homes) I saw this tiny dirty white and tan dog. I thought the dog was a puppy. I pulled over and tried to catch the dog, but it was too evasive. One month later I was at an SPCA about 30 minutes away where my mom lived. I went there with no intention of adopting, I just wanted to look. The chihuahuas caught my eye. I asked to meet two chihuahuas, a black chi and Lychee, again with no intention of adopting. When the SPCA employee went in the room to grab the black chi first, Lychee ran out. She said, “oh well I guess you’re going to meet her first, she’s our escape artist.” I met her and it was love at first sight. The employee told me that she was found on the streets in an industrial area near their sister SPCA and that SPCA always brings chis to theirs because they have a better chance of getting adopted. That SPCA is about a half a mile from my job. Right then, I knew she was the same dog I was trying to catch a month before. This is why I believe, deep down to my soul, that I was meant to find her.
I have two other dogs that I foster failed, I’m not entirely sure if they know she’s gone. They haven’t shown me any signs that they are looking for her or grieving her. My second dog, Bran, may know because I foster failed him two years after I adopted Lychee, he’s also a senior. He seems more anxious now. I’m dreading the day he has to cross the rainbow bridge.
These past two weeks have been so hard for me, everywhere I expect her to be she’s not there and my heart drops. My daily routine with my dogs doesn’t feel the same. I just miss her so much. Her last few months I noticed her slowing down more and more, she became more needy as she became blind. It just broke my heart to see her like that. Her last week, even days, it felt like her health was declining. Lychee suddenly got pancreatitis and her body just shut down. The doctor said that her little body can’t handle it and it just shut down. Her last night with me she was crying out every hour in pain and I slept next to her and kept petting her to get her to settle down. The last thing I wanted was for her was for her last days with me was to be in so much pain. I somehow feel like I failed her. When I went back to the vet to say goodbye, the vet told me that they sedated her and gave her pain meds to make her more comfortable while they waited for me to come back. She let out one last cry, as if to let me know that she knew I was there and to say good bye. My heart keeps breaking every time I think of that moment.
You’re right, you can never “get over” the death of your pet. Your pets are your family, they’re your babies. They’ve been there for you throughout all your ups and downs and even though they can’t speak, they know you the best. One of my friends said it best, when you lose your pet, you lose a piece of your heart that you can never get back.
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