Pets

I'm so sorry for your loss. My wife and I lost our 13 year old Golden mix on Monday after Easter in 2021. I walked her every morning if it wasn't raining and Saturday morning she couldn't get up. We rushed her to the vet and she had bone cancer. They gave her a shot to ease the pain so she could spent Easter with us. Our children and grand children came over and we all had a good steak. My son drove us to the vet Monday morning and he put her down. I sat in the room alone with her crying for almost an hour until they needed the room for another animal. We had her cremated and it took about two weeks to get her ashes.

Her ashes are on a chest in our bedroom with a picture of her with us together in happier times. We don't regret the cremation because we are also going to be cremated and our ashes scattered with hers at my wife's family cemetery. We both cried about her for months after, in fact I have tears in my eyes just writing this.

After losing her, we thought we would never get another dog. But we missed having a dog so 14 months later we adopted a 6 month old Boxer/Pyrennes mix. He will be 4 years old on Dec. 21 and we love him very much, but in a different way. We are in our early 70s and we intend to have his ashes with us when he dies.

Hang in there it gets better!