One Of Those Days

[FifeJillandIan]

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Anyway, sorry to waffle on......this is the first time I've EVER written down how I really felt about my girls and I think it HAS helped (even tho' the screen has gone all blurry!).......perhaps tomorrow I may try being brave enough to get Neil to get that dvd out and I'll try to look at Tina and Diva once more :b

You've really been through the mill haven't you ... I'm glad you're on the mend now :huggles:

Take care,

Jill

 

[Foxglove]

It's certainly made me realise just HOW much I need dogs in my life :wub: I've always loved them and always had them in our family when I was growing up but after losing Tina & Diva it's like no pain I have EVER been through :wacko: Even losing my brother in 1998 didn't hurt as much as this (I know that sounds awful but once I'd accepted that it was a freak virus that killed him I 'just' accepted it).

Neil at first wasn't sure about getting another whippet and went through all manner of breeds trying to find the perfect one for us........poodles, chihuahuas, chinese crested, jack russells.....all manner of medium to small-sized breeds....but it ALWAYS comes back to whippets :lol: There's just something about them that keeps drawing us to them :wub:

Wonder what price the local bookies will give us on us holding out UNTIL March 2011? (w00t) Not a very good I imagine as I would sell everything I own if it meant I could get a whippet tomorrow

 

[betsy]

i feel i have to join in with memories of dogs that i have lost over many years,i am only recently in to whippets and love my two girls to pieces,but my first love has always been irish setters,the red coats, ) Having bred them for many years i have been there when they were born and when they had to leave this life for rainbow bridge! Every one is a loss in its own way and it never gets any easier how many times you go through it. i lost one of my girls nearly 2 years ago with a tumour on her spleen, she was 8years named sybil but whooppee she answered too!I didnt breed her but i loved her as my own setters, she was such a character and i miss her dearly every day. I feel guilty that i let her down when the vet mis diagnosed her symptoms and she suffered when i could have prevented it.Also i wasnt with her when she was put to sleep and this has never happened before with any if my animals. i didnt say goodbye and i cant get over it.I have such lovely memories of her and every day i feel she is with me at my side when i walk the others because their spirit lives on

 

[oakmoorehill]

i feel i have to join in with memories of dogs that i have lost over many years,i am only recently in to whippets and love my two girls to pieces,but my first love has always been irish setters,the red coats, ) Having bred them for many years i have been there when they were born and when they had to leave this life for rainbow bridge! Every one is a loss in its own way and it never gets any easier how many times you go through it. i lost one of my girls nearly 2 years ago with a tumour on her spleen, she was 8years named sybil but whooppee she answered too!I didnt breed her but i loved her as my own setters, she was such a character and i miss her dearly every day. I feel guilty that i let her down when the vet mis diagnosed her symptoms and she suffered when i could have prevented it.Also i wasnt with her when she was put to sleep and this has never happened before with any if my animals. i didnt say goodbye and i cant get over it.I have such lovely memories of her and every day i feel she is with me at my side when i walk the others because their spirit lives on

Do you have any photos? Please put a photo of Sybil on.

I too have an irish setter Zoe they are my OH's first love.

 

[nicky12]

Awwww I'm filling up just reading all these :b :wub:
It was 2 years ago today ~ May 7th 2008 ~ that we bought Tina and I whilst I haven't felt as though I've been consciously thinking about it, I have been a bit grumpy and weepy today :unsure: Even though her death WAS an accident I still beat myself up and cry bucketloads of tears over her, 18 months on. I've got a dvd with photos of her which Neil made for me in the safe in the bedroom but haven't yet managed to look at them as I'm terrified it'll just rip my heart out all over again

Then, a few weeks after losing Tina, Neil saw Diva advertised on Preloved and MADE me go to see her.....even though I was adamant that I would never be good enough to be worthy of a dog's love after failing Tina so badly. But the minute we saw this tiny black bitch who was all kisses and comedy we HAD to have her. And even though I absolutely adored rabbits and these turned out to be the one thing that Diva was obsessed with I forgave her :- She was my little Funny Face with her scars and torn ears and HIDEOUS movement (Tina floated over the ground but darling Diva just scuttled & skipped! ) and her habit of sleeping UNDER the duvet on your feet and jumping up into your arms from a standstill. So to lose her too just six weeks later when I stupidly didn't have a tight hold of the lead and she bolted after a rabbit and ended up under a car.....well, I was cursed and turned my back completely on dogs.....I just wasn't good enough for them I hated myself and, to cut a long story short, beat myself up so much over my stupidity and carelessness that I would spend hours locked away upstairs crying my eyes out at work and, every morning when I woke up, it was with a feeling of sadness and emptiness that I hadn't slipped away in my sleep....I never wanted to actually kill myself (too much of a coward and didn't know how that would be quick and painless!)...I just didn't want to exist. Life was pointless without my two girls In the end Neil dragged me to the doctors and I was put on the sick and started taking anti-depressants and these helped....took the edge off the numbness. But once I started seeing a counsellor THAT got to the root of the problem......guilt over my dogs :b Talking and being allowed to just cry and cry until my eyes were red-raw helped SO much and Neil being there with me helped too - he learnt so much about me about things which I'd never really talked about in the 12 years we'd been together.

I've learnt from last year's 'mini-breakdown' how to just let things wash over me now and I'm SO much better mentally and physically. I've joined Slimming World and lost nearly 2st so far and Neil and I are actually planning our next dogs :wub: This year we are getting a few silly debts out of the way and Neil has promised me a whippet pup for my 43rd birthday next March......thop' knowing how soft we are if a rescue comes up needing loadsa love and a warm bed we'd not say no (w00t)

It's funny how over the past few weeks Neil has went through virtually every breed of dog to try to find something suitable for us......but it ALWAYS comes back to whippets :lol: We were even in a garden centre yesterday and there was THE most adorable fawn boy curled up on a bed behind the till......and, of course, we got down on our knees and gave him HUGE cuddles and kisses :wub: I offered his owner my purse (just been paid too!) AND the car keys but she still wouldn't part with him :lol:

Anyway, sorry to waffle on......this is the first time I've EVER written down how I really felt about my girls and I think it HAS helped (even tho' the screen has gone all blurry!).......perhaps tomorrow I may try being brave enough to get Neil to get that dvd out and I'll try to look at Tina and Diva once more :b

this has had me in tears i think your very brave person to write what you have and my heart goes out to you and i hope you find another bundle of sunshine very soon you so deserve it :huggles:

thanks everyone thats shared there memories so far ...our furry kids maybe gone but they will never EVER be forgotton sleep tight babies :wub:

 

[Lal]

I think this is the loveliest thread even though I have cried reading the posts. So many sad stories, so many bittersweet memories. Thank you Nicky for starting this, a great tribute to some of our special friends and perhaps may help some of us with the grieving process.

I don't have many photos (due to a house fire) but just want to remember Ben (black lab), Jet (black lab), Trixie (JRT and the BEST ratter ever!), Toby (goldie), Brandy (King Charles), Meg Maggot (my darling little JRT pup who we think was stolen, many years ago), Smuff (a little 'accident' lab x spaniel, but one of the sweetest, most devoted dogs we ever owned, died suddenly, aged 9, lying on my feet where she always lay) and a special mention to Swipe, who didn't belong to me but who I used to dogsit for, he reminded me of my childhood ambition to have a Whippet and was Rifle's first friend.

Those we Love remain with us,

for Love itself lives on.

Cherished memories never fade,

because one loved is gone.

Those we Love can never be,

more than a thought apart,

for as long as there’s a memory,

they live on in our heart...

:wub: All running free at Rainbow Bridge :wub:

 

[eve]

A Very sad thread, but also one filled with wonderful memories.

I would like to remember Lady, my first rescue whippet who arrived in a rucksac on the back of a motorcyclist, and converted me to a lifelong love of whippets. She was no lady but certainly a wonderful companion and she tought me al I needed to know about a whippets thieving ways

Mouse and Rose (formerly Bubble and Squeek) cruelty cases entrusted to me my the SSPCA full of needle holes and cigarette burns from their former drug addict owners, sad little girls who taught me all almost all I know about what people can do to dogs and just how resilient and wonderful dogs can be

Lizzie the lurcher, a handfull, terrified of everything but none the less the most loving needy girl beaten to an abject terror of men ( Thanks to both the men in my life for their patience too

To my fosters, Brie, Nipper, Flash, and Caden (now Tigg) living in splendour and much beloved by his owner.

Most of all, I rember Peat. We adored each other from day one when we sat in Manchester train station on the way home from Glossip and he stole my big Mac while I ate a chip For nearly 8 years he was my most dearly beloved and companion of my heart. When he collapsed while we were out walking and died a few hours later from an aortic thromboembolism on the 19th Feb 2009, something went from my life that has never returned.

Run free all my whippet friends, free from pain, free from fear and happy for ever :wub:

I am not usually quite so slushy, but sometimes it is good to have a good cry and remember dear departed friends

 

[Lal]

I'm not a 'slushy' person normally Eve, but, as you rightly say, sometimes it is good to have a good cry and remember. You certainly seem to have had a few 'characters' in your past, and they all leave a little imprint... xxx

 

[affieluver]

I still miss my darling Daisy very much even though it was 14 months ago that i lost her so tragically i will never get over losing her so young miss you girl x

 

[eve]

I found some photos of 'old friends'

Lady and I at Lindisfarne 1995 (Yes that is Lizzie doing bunnies in the background!)

Lizzie the Lurcher and Peat 1996

PEAT