Toon: I wish I could talk to you

[n2doc]

[packman]

1. cutting onions here

[Hulk]

23. Doing the same....

...and the little pup my wife brought home has me so disgusted at times. Unyielding love and devotion. Amazing miracles.

[mountain grammy]

2. Hugging my little rescued guy with his crooked front legs and missing hip

knowing his time with us won't be real long.. but we'll love every minute.

This is beautiful. Thanks from one who has been through this more than once.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. The one thing that sucks about having companion animals.

Their lifespans are just too darn short. You wish they would live as long as you do.

[sarge43]

5. Yes, but ...

out living us would break those sweet loving hearts and we couldn't do that to them.

[Hoppy]

10. Thats why I won't have one.

[whathehell]

11. Yes,

that's spot on.

Your post speaks to me because I lost the sweetest, most loving and affectionate

cat I'd ever known just a few months ago to cancer.

He was a big, fat orange guy with one crossed eye and we had him less

than a year before he was diagnosed with Lymphoma.

We were ready to spend virtually everything we had to save him,

but the vet said "no hope".

I tear up just thinking about him.

[titanicdave]

25. Me Too.......

I lost my beautiful loving white cat with blue eyes named Sammy about 4 years ago and I still hurt that he is no longer here..........

[whathehell]

28. Yeah..Maybe my age is catching up to me, but

I'm starting to wonder about that old saying

"Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all".


What if you've "loved and lost" too many times?

[brewens]

41. I feel like I owe it to them. I can't really have a dog. It's not fair to leave them home alone as

much as I have to. I've had several cats. Never picked one out, they always find me somehow. My girlfriend rescued the one I have now. She's a little over a year of and can be a real handful! She is starting to mellow out and get more snuggly.

[whathehell]

53. Actually, yes, you have the right idea

When I think of all the homeless, not to mention abused and mistreated

animals out there, I think we do owe them whatever shelter and kindness

we can give them.

[dixiegrrrrl]

63. I waited 20 years to have a dog again, for the reasons you stated.

I wanted another Golden Retriever, but esp. to that breed, being home for them is important, they are SO people oriented.
So had to wait till I retired early.
Now our guy is 60, in dog years, and the toon really hits home.

[CTyankee]

12. having to put down my wonderful "Marvy dog" was incredibly hard to do...I cried and cried...

that was in 1974. I never owned a dog again...

[theaocp]

59. As a lover of animals

and one of the co-leaders of Motor City Ferrets, I hope you are able to adopt again. This whole thread makes me incredibly sad for my dog Arya (rescued off the streets, duh! ) and she's nowhere near ready to cross the bridge. She's looking at me right now wondering why we aren't going for a run when Dad is in front of the computer. Dogs give us the wherewithall to keep improving ourselves to become the image they see. We'll never make it, but the pursuit is all. Thanks.

[jtuck004]

49. That is to teach us a lesson we have yet to learn about how precious life is. It's part of

their work.

[lamp_shade]

4. Oh mercy. I'm crying right out loud. How beautiful. n/t

[demigoddess]

6. stop it!

first thing in the morning and I'm crying.

[calimary]

33. Last thing in the afternoon, and I'm crying, too, demigoddess.

[demigoddess]

45. I've had three cats that came back

after they died to give a little love and say good bye.

[alphafemale]

7. We let an animal into your heart already knowing they will break it.

And we do it time after time.

Life feels empty without an animal.

[riderinthestorm]

8. Oh so spot on... Tears...

[99Forever]

9. It's the hardest part of our commitment.

But not a barrier to making it for me. The things my dogs have taught me have made me a better person.

[SheilaT]

13. So true.

I've been through this with a total of four cats as an adult. Currently I am pet-free because I'm doing a lot of travelling and can't be around as I should, but someday I will be a crazy cat lady and have many more.

What is even more heartbreaking than having to say goodbye to our wonderful companions is when a person goes into a nursing home, or dies and there is no one around to take in the dogs or cats, and they wind up in an animal shelter. I will do my best to make sure there are long-term arrangements made for my darlings if they outlive me.

[Gothmog]

14. Very powerful cartoon

I had to say good bye to my dog a couple of months ago

[etherealtruth]

15. I think what I have just done can be described as SOBBING

[Stargazer09]

16. That made me cry

I miss my pets that left me too soon.

[VA_Jill]

17. OMG, my eyes are leaking

I've said goodbye to 4 dogs and several kitties, held each one as they made their journey to Rainbow Bridge. Many of them are buried where they lived. I'm fur-free at the moment, but I suspect when my S/O retires there may be one in our future. I miss having a fur friend around.

[customerserviceguy]

18. I kept a copy of this

Would it be appropriate or inappropriate to forward to someone who just lost a four-legged friend?

[Scarsdale]

20. I think it would be welcomed.

Your friend would know you were thinking of them at this sad time. I had to put my Rottweiler to sleep (bone cancer) at the age of 6 1/2. Broke my heart. I have had to say goodbye to several dogs and cats, and it never gets any easier, they are all so special in their own unique way. I inherited two cats and they are both getting on in years. Love them so much. I dpibt I will ever get another pet. Hurts so very very much to say goodbye. They love and trust with their whole being.

[Lefta Dissenter]

58. I would have appreciated it immensely

when I recently had to put down my Lucy due to kidney failure.

It's a very sweet and loving statement.

[baldguy]

19. And yet, if you call it a Pit Bull, normally rational people are overtaken w/ blood lust to kill it.

[theaocp]

61. Those folks need to try

and rescue a bait pit. I promise, they'll melt.

[Demeter]

21. Oh, Dog, it's been 14 years, and I'm still crying

[Duppers]

30. 7 years here...

Tears flowing here too.

[secondvariety]

22. It'll be one year

Friday that I said good-bye to my sweet Lealue. I miss her with all my heart. Thank you so much for this post...it helps.

[ashling]

24. Can't psot through the tears

...

[jillan]

26. When I had to put my Springer Spaniel down, I was hysterical. The Vet said to me....

You gave her a great life.


Altho it didn't stop me from crying my eyes out, those were the words I needed to hear at that moment.

[ruffburr]

27. Every Now and Then-

Something truly profound is said in toons, This is one of them, As for me the more i know about people the more i love my dogs, I held my 19 yr friend in my arms as she got the shot, I swear i felt her relief and soul touch me on her way out.

[Martin Eden]

29. We've said good-bye to two of our beloved canine companions in the last 13 months

My wife and I had many great adventures with our yellow lab Hunny, traveling to 16 states on hiking vacations. She passed away a year ago August 25, a few months shy of her 17th birthday. It was her time.

But I can't hold back the tears now because we lost our black lab/terrier mix Winnie less than 10 days ago. She was very smart, very good, full of play, and the picture of health until she started getting lethargic a week ago Sunday. On Monday she was worse but still eating, so the vet said bring her in the next day if she wasn't better. By Tuesday she stopped eating so we took her in, and the diagnosis floored us -- liver failure. Winnie died on Wednesday August 27, not yet two and a half years old. The vet still hasn't been able to tell us what caused it.

Every time I come home from work and she's not there to greet me, it hits me. Whenever we're at home Winnie was always with us, part of our daily routine. But it's more than her absence that hurts -- she had so many great adventures to look forward to, and plenty of life still to live.

We love her dearly, and miss her terribly.

[Tsiyu]

31. Damn

...

[Helen Borg]

32. Do dogs really think that? :)

I doubt it...

[BlancheSplanchnik]

36. gee, that seems a cold hearted thing to say.

I don't know why you felt the need to say it, especially late in the thread after lots of people shared their heartfelt stories.

Oh well....I don't get it, but I guess your reason makes sense to you.

[Helen Borg]

54. Oh, did you see the smiley?

My dog, at least, thinks about food, mostly. I think he sees me as a food delivery device

[catchnrelease]

34. There is a frame like this

I've seen in a dog related catalog a frame with the sentiment of the cartoon engraved into the metal around where the photo would be. 'Thanks for everything, I had a wonderful time'. I think it's such a neat thing, but I've never been able to bring myself to get one. First I don't know which of the kids we've lost I would put in the frame and second I'd be crying every time I looked at it.



If you want to read something really gut wrenching re losing a pet, try The Last Will and Testament of Silverdene Emblem O'Neill. Have lots of kleenex ready!

http://www.eoneill.com/texts/blemie/contents.htm

[BlancheSplanchnik]

35. I'm cuddling Shrimpy, she's making her Shrimpy noises,

And I'm crying. I love my baby...my furry baby.....

[Fairgo]

37. If heartbreak is the cost

For 15 years of love, i will gladly pay.

[CaptainTruth]

38. I find it strange that everyone seems to assume ...

... that it's the dog's life that's ending. I thought the dog's owner was passing on ... & saying goodbye.

And I find it truly sad that our society gives more peaceful & humane end-of-life options to animals than we do to human beings.

[calimary]

40. Welcome to DU, CaptainTruth and Fairgo!

Glad you're both here. I'd say more but it's hard to see what I'm typing at the moment...

[WinkyDink]

43. The dog is the voice. The dog says he's not afraid. The dog is being carried into the clinic. IT'S

THE DOG.

[another_liberal]

57. Dogs don't talk . . .

The cartoonist is talking.

[another_liberal]

39. "Now I'm old, I'm tired and I hurt . . ."

But if you try to euthanize me, I'll bite your god-damned hand off!

[840high]

42. Crying here.

[ErikJ]

44. Goodbye... George.

[PatrickforO]

46. Geez, there must be some dust in my room.

My eyes are watering.



I love my dogs and cats. It's so hard when the time comes.

[padruig]

47. what can one say ...

the better we treat the animals in our lives

the better we treat each other

[DonCoquixote]

48. My dog seemed to time her death

She waited until when I was at church, then I came home and fou8nd out what happened.

In a way, it was fitting, because there is no way I would ever have the guts to put her down.

[8 track mind]

50. my eyes are very cloudy....

i miss you Mike....

[littlemissmartypants]

51. ...

"May I always be the kind of person my dogs think I am."

[Sognefjord]

52. Salute to My Old Comrades

I have framed pictures of my old cat companions, Wally and Fritzi at one end of our kitchen. I now and then salute them as I go by, my gallant old comrades and friends through all adversity. They are thus honored and enshrined, my dear Waldorf-Astoria and Frederick the Great whom I mourned as for a brother lost.

[littlewolf]

55. it is dusty in here ....

it is just over a year that I took my Shelly
to the rainbow bridge.

still haven't gotten a new furbaby ... maybe soon ....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

56. As Carlin said, "Life is a series of dogs."

[barbtries]

60. this made me cry.

my cat Lola purred when i petted her for the last time. she purred.

[delete_bush]

62. My god,

what a wonderful sentiment.

[NYC_SKP]

64. Recommended. (nt)