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Man Chooses the 16 Year-Old Dog at the Shelter

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26 Comments on Man Chooses the 16 Year-Old Dog at the Shelter

  4. So, you really can teach an old dog new tricks and keep her alive for a while longer by loving on her. What would we do without our dogs. My very energetic border collie Kirby will be one in a couple of weeks, and we want to keep him around as long as possible.

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  5. My Ellie was a rescue that had been abused.
    One of my best days ever, was bringing her home after her adoption.
    It’s heartwarming to see senior dogs get a family.

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  6. I have given that a lot of thought, but I always come back to the reality…what if I go before the old dog dies. It’s stuck in the same situations and I don’t think I could handle knowing that. As it is, I can barely care for myself, much less a senior doggo. God bless those that are able to take them on.

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  8. I loved the story.
    I then scrolled down twitter and the posts got progressively more libtardish the further I went. Then I found a post by pete buttgig and I ended it there. Is it always this way with twitter?

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  9. Old dogs are both the most beautiful things on Earth and the saddest. My boy ‘Tex’ who is 13 has promised he won’t go out until he’s 27 and that should match the time when I probably will go out….

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  10. God bless him!

    DOC

    I’ve made arraignment with a son to take Angus should I go first!
    Angus will always have a good home!

    and, since I’ve “put down’ 8 I hope Angus doe have a new, good , home! To me dogs are family. I love my family!

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  11. I lost a 14 year old a couple years back and a 12 year old just last month. Dogs get quite expensive at end of life and get really, REALLY hard to say goodbye to, which is one of the things that drives those expenses up.

    God bless anyone willing to give sunset care to a good doggo. Its tough saying hello when you know you’re going to have to say goodbye so soon.

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  16. Love love love this story. A year after my husband died I adopted a 10 year old rescue wire haired terrier. I think she was “puppy milled” because at 10 she was not spayed. Looked like she had a litter within the last year. She’s 12-1/2 now. Best therapy ever for my loss. It’s a blessing to rescue an older dog.

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  17. I have taken in big old dogs since 1987. I call them death row dogs. Most people don’t want them, I do and they are just so happy and lazy at the same time it is endearing if I knew how to send a picture of Heidi I would. She has in interesting story.

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  18. My dog is 10 in July. Dished out $2k for knee surgery last September after she blew out her ACL and she’s mostly back to normal, apparently takes a whole year for complete recovery. I was a frickin wreck without my walking partner the first 4 months and she’s still alive. I’m going to be choked up for a long time when she’s gone. There’s just something extra special about my current doggo and I cherish every minute we get.

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  19. My father-in-law inherited a 11-or-12-year-old yellow lab named Polo from one of his sons after he had moved out. My mother-in-law passed away from kidney failure shortly thereafter and he was all alone with Polo. He fed the poor dog ice cream because he was lonely and didn’t really know what else to do. He would take a scoop of ice cream and then give one to the dog who then became overweight. We all laughed about that a lot until one of his other sons took Polo away from him and nursed him back to health by taking better care of him and Polo lost a lot of weight and lived for another 4 to 5 years happily after that. My FIL got remarried and then got a stupid roly poly basset hound, who always stunk like hell whenever we would visit, go figure. He loved his dogs in his own way, I guess.

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  22. I employed a female attorney who adopted and cared for elderly dogs giving them the best home possible until their deaths. As a “dog person” I’ve suffered when saying goodbye to a genuine friend several times. I don’t know how she did it. She once commented that she hoped they never dug her backyard up because they’d think she was a mass murderer. She was a saint to these dogs and I always admired her for her kindness.

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  24. Doc;
    As you know, when you care for your Devil Dogs keeping them healthy and at times entertained, they become Loyal to the death. That bond is never broken.
    God Bless all Corpsmen and their Devil Dogs.

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