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http://m.tickld.com/x/why-dogs-never-actually-die-this-guy-nails-itSorry, unable to post the content due to crappy mobile device. Go to the link and read if you are a dog person.
Grab a hanky first.
On edit: thanks to Intaglio, for posting the image downthread.
On further edit: thanks to NYCSkip for getting the text. Here it is:
Some of you, particularly those who think they have recently lost a dog to death, dont really understand this. Ive had no desire to explain, but wont be around forever and must.
Dogs never die. They dont know how to. They get tired, and very old, and their bones hurt. Of course they dont die. If they did they would not want to always go for a walk, even long after their old bones say: No, no, not a good idea. Lets not go for a walk. Nope, dogs always want to go for a walk. They might get one step before their aging tendons collapse them into a heap on the floor, but thats what dogs are. They walk.
Its not that they dislike your company. On the contrary, a walk with you is all there is. Their boss, and the cacaphonic symphony of odor that the world is. Cat poop, another dogs mark, a rotting chicken bone ( exultation), and you. Thats what makes their world perfect, and in a perfect world death has no place.
However, dogs get very very sleepy. Thats the thing, you see. They dont teach you that at the fancy university where they explain about quarks, gluons, and Keynesian economics. They know so much they forget that dogs never die. Its a shame, really. Dogs have so much to offer and people just talk a lot.
When you think your dog has died, it has just fallen asleep in your heart. And by the way, it is wagging its tail madly, you see, and thats why your chest hurts so much and you cry all the time. Who would not cry with a happy dog wagging its tail in their chest. Ouch! Wap wap wap wap wap, that hurts. But they only wag when they wake up. Thats when they say: Thanks Boss! Thanks for a warm place to sleep and always next to your heart, the best place.
When they first fall asleep, they wake up all the time, and thats why, of course, you cry all the time. Wap, wap, wap. After a while they sleep more. (remember, a dog while is not a human while. You take your dog for walk, its a day full of adventure in an hour. Then you come home and its a week, well one of your days, but a week, really, before the dog gets another walk. No WONDER they love walks.)
Anyway, like I was saying, they fall asleep in your heart, and when they wake up, they wag their tail. After a few dog years, they sleep for longer naps, and you would too. They were a GOOD DOG all their life, and you both know it. It gets tiring being a good dog all the time, particularly when you get old and your bones hurt and you fall on your face and dont want to go outside to pee when it is raining but do anyway, because you are a good dog. So understand, after they have been sleeping in your heart, they will sleep longer and longer.
But dont get fooled. They are not dead. Theres no such thing, really. They are sleeping in your heart, and they will wake up, usually when youre not expecting it. Its just who they are.
I feel sorry for people who dont have dogs sleeping in their heart. Youve missed so much. Excuse me, I have to go cry now.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)intaglio
(8,170 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Yeah, must have been my allergies, eyes are watering something awful...
polly7
(20,582 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)That's heart-wrenching.
riqster
(13,986 posts)I will be hugging mine even more than usual tonight.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)logosoco
(3,208 posts)Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)but she's sleeping more and more these days. Thanks.....
tularetom
(23,664 posts)They think I'm a grumpy tough old fart who never lets anything get to him.
Seeing me now would be destructive to my image.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Kids and grandkids went home last night. Good timing.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)She went to sleep in my arms. I just felt her wagging in my heart.
That's the real problem with having a dog. They don't live long enough.
rurallib
(62,413 posts)both are always alive in my mind. Their joy, their love, their funny quirks.
Yep, this guy really nailed it
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Some of you, particularly those who think they have recently lost a dog to death, dont really understand this. Ive had no desire to explain, but wont be around forever and must.
Dogs never die. They dont know how to. They get tired, and very old, and their bones hurt. Of course they dont die. If they did they would not want to always go for a walk, even long after their old bones say: No, no, not a good idea. Lets not go for a walk. Nope, dogs always want to go for a walk. They might get one step before their aging tendons collapse them into a heap on the floor, but thats what dogs are. They walk.
Its not that they dislike your company. On the contrary, a walk with you is all there is. Their boss, and the cacaphonic symphony of odor that the world is. Cat poop, another dogs mark, a rotting chicken bone ( exultation), and you. Thats what makes their world perfect, and in a perfect world death has no place.
However, dogs get very very sleepy. Thats the thing, you see. They dont teach you that at the fancy university where they explain about quarks, gluons, and Keynesian economics. They know so much they forget that dogs never die. Its a shame, really. Dogs have so much to offer and people just talk a lot.
When you think your dog has died, it has just fallen asleep in your heart. And by the way, it is wagging its tail madly, you see, and thats why your chest hurts so much and you cry all the time. Who would not cry with a happy dog wagging its tail in their chest. Ouch! Wap wap wap wap wap, that hurts. But they only wag when they wake up. Thats when they say: Thanks Boss! Thanks for a warm place to sleep and always next to your heart, the best place.
When they first fall asleep, they wake up all the time, and thats why, of course, you cry all the time. Wap, wap, wap. After a while they sleep more. (remember, a dog while is not a human while. You take your dog for walk, its a day full of adventure in an hour. Then you come home and its a week, well one of your days, but a week, really, before the dog gets another walk. No WONDER they love walks.)
Anyway, like I was saying, they fall asleep in your heart, and when they wake up, they wag their tail. After a few dog years, they sleep for longer naps, and you would too. They were a GOOD DOG all their life, and you both know it. It gets tiring being a good dog all the time, particularly when you get old and your bones hurt and you fall on your face and dont want to go outside to pee when it is raining but do anyway, because you are a good dog. So understand, after they have been sleeping in your heart, they will sleep longer and longer.
But dont get fooled. They are not dead. Theres no such thing, really. They are sleeping in your heart, and they will wake up, usually when youre not expecting it. Its just who they are.
I feel sorry for people who dont have dogs sleeping in their heart. Youve missed so much. Excuse me, I have to go cry now.
http://www.lifebuzz.com/dogs-never-die/
riqster
(13,986 posts)H2O Man
(73,537 posts)This reminded me of my dog, Mugsey. He was a 135-lb German Shepherd, and he was all muscle. And intelligence. If he had to go out at night, and I was sleeping, Mugs would drop a sneaker on me. He knew I wore sneakers to take him out.
Although he was huge -- and appeared potentially "mean" -- he was as friendly as could be. Unless someone came here for the wrong reason. He knew the difference.
I knew people who had his siblings; one by one, they died of old age. Mugsey got where he had trouble walking, and so I pretty much just kept him comfortable inside.
When I knew the end was close, I had my son carry him out to a spot where Mugs and I had spent a lot of time playing. We slept out there, under the stars. In the early morning, he woke me, by placing his huge paw on my hands. And then he died.
In my culture, dogs aren't "animals." They are Dog-People. Mugsey was a Dog-Man, who shared his life with me, as I shared mine with him.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Seems to fit.
drynberg
(1,648 posts)Now the love of my life is a 5 month old golden, very different in many ways but still a golden after all. Cats are always with us, but Dogs do live on! They leave such a deep painful mark where they were.
riqster
(13,986 posts)But they leave different holes in our souls after they take their longest "nap".
brer cat
(24,564 posts)Now I know what that wap, wap, wap is near my heart. My dear departed Sandy waking up from a nap. I actually "saw" Sandy go over the rainbow bridge when she went to sleep, and I heard the laughter from my parents when they greeted her on the other side. An amazing experience.
"Now I know what that wap, wap, wap is near my heart."
Note to self: do NOT start tear-inducing threads before going out where people might see me. Or at least, don't check them.
Enthusiast
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Our most recent dog would go outside to pee. Often she would fall over on her side unable to make it back to the house. We would have to go out and pick her up. But she kept going out anyway.
I think she knew we were happy to have her with us. She tried to keep going as long as she possibly could, even though she could no longer see, wag her tail or hear a single thing.
wreq
(8 posts)Brought back all my loving dog memories tears and all. Thank you.
riqster
(13,986 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)The kids were little, they had extra curricular activities, I was working, big house to care for, aging parents... and this dog needed so much more that I could give him.
Border Collies want to work. I didn't realize that when I got him. And I was busy. I didn't have the time for him. He shed like crazy; his energy drove me crazy.... of all the dogs in my life, he was the most beautiful but I didn't give him what he needed above and beyond a home - food to eat, fresh water to drink. That was it. Just the necessities.
He went to sleep way too soon. 10 years old from bloat. And the pain won't go away.
All the other dogs in my life are sleeping soundly in my heart. They were happy.... but this one keeps tugging at me... he knows I wish I could have a do-over with him, that I wish I could turn back time. But I can't, so I just carry him in my heart.
Thanks for posting this.