Sorry for your loss Cedar Hacker I have felt that pain your feeling now.

I have had a lot of dogs, and I get very attached to most of them. I really like to read this every once in awhile.

This Is Why Dogs Never Die
by Marshall Morris

If you’ve ever lost a furry family member, you will never forget this powerful story. To the person who wrote this, thank you.

This is why dogs never die:

“Some of you, particularly those who think they have recently lost a dog to “death”, don’t really understand this. I’ve had no desire to explain, but I won’t be around forever and must for those out there to finally understand.

Dogs never die. They don’t know how too. They get tired, very old and their bones hurt. Of course they don’t 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. Let’s 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 that’s what dogs do. They walk.

You see, a walk with you is all there is. A walk with their best friend and the symphony of odor that the world is. Cat poop, another dog’s mark, a rotting chicken bone and you. That is what makes their world perfect and in a perfect world death as no place.
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Dogs just get very, very sleepy. That is the thing you see. The don’t teach you that at the fancy university where they explain about quarks and economics. They know so much there that they forget that dogs never die. It is a shame really. Dogs have so much to offer and people just talk too much.

When you think your dog has died, it has really just fallen asleep in the world and now lives in your heart. And by the way, it is wagging its tail madly, you see, and that is 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 because they are so happy to be so close to you.

Whenever they wake up in your heart they wag their tail. After a few dog years, they sleep for longer periods of time and you will 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 don’t want to go outside to pee when it is raining but they do because they are a good dog. So understand that after they have been sleeping in your heart, they will sleep longer and longer.

But don’t get fooled. They are not “dead”. There is no such thing, really. They are sleeping in your heart and when they wake up, usually when you are not expecting it. It is just who they are.

I feel sorry for people who don’t have dogs sleeping in their heart. They miss so much

Sorry for your loss . We lost our golden 5 years ago that we had for 14 years it was a tuff time for us after that . We talked about getting another one but I couldn't do it said there would never be another one like her . This year on my birthday my wife surprise me with one. I think he will make it but he will never be like the one before.

They become our children. Sorry for your loss.

Sorry for your loss Cedar. Judging by the relationship that he had with that deer, I can only imagine how much more special he was. It's amazing how dogs love us every moment of every day regardless of what mood we're in at the time.

Cedar Hacker,
Sorry for your loss. I had to put my dog (Belle) down. She had stomach cancer and it broke my heart just seeing the X-ray. It was better not to let her suffer. Her memories live on. My heart goes out to you. I believe it was me focusing on the memories of her and prayers that got me through it. She was with me wherever I went. Prayers sent.

God bless, Swampfox

Sorry for your loss, I just had to bury my old friend Pierre this past weekend. They truly are part of the family.

I'm very sorry to hear that.. It's rough loosing your friends..

Sorry for the loss

my condolences friend! its like a child and you have to grieve.
when and only when your ready you May find another real Keeper.

Sorry for your loss! I recently lost my best friend and it was hard on me.

I want to thank everyone for the kind words. I will never forget my Abbie and all the time spent with her faithfully just behind or out in front of me.

Here is the last picture I took of her with her friend Brady.

Sorry for your loss. We lost our English bulldog in April. Sad times dogs are good company.

So sorry. It happens way too often in our short little stay on Earth. Better to have Loved and Lost than to be a Non-Dog person !!

Most humans could learn an awful lot from 'bout any dog. My heart's out to you, man.

still not over having to put down our lab at 11 years. she had sugar for her last three. yes, cedar, i know the feeling.

This !

I feel your loss . Lost my shadow last Feburary

I'm sorry for your loss. A good dog is never gone in our memory. They make us complete.

If dogs don't go to heaven , then I want to go where they go when I die ...

In about six months you will only remember the good times, and the saddness will fade from memory. Been three months for me and every day is easier. Hang on.