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The Dead Thread 2024

Putting this in dead thread because I’d already posted about my dog dying here.

I have a 13 year old dog who is now confused and saddened after the loss of her brother. They were together ten years with me. I’ve had the 13 year old her entire life and a few years after getting her, I found a 4 year old boy who needed a home and it just fit. So for ten years we were a family of 3.

he died one week ago, Wednesday morning. I had her sniff his body before it was taken away. Three days later she started vomiting and having diarrhea, then stopped drinking water and leaking urine (she does have early stage kidney disease). Sooo emergency room yesterday, no signs of anything being wrong, doc thinks it’s all stress from grief. So we’re loading her up on gaba and have her a fluid pack. Today I’m feeding her rice and wet pumpkin puree to get some water in her, but I’m nervous. It’s like she doesn’t want to drink out of the bowl she shared with kobey now that he’s gone.

any ideas? Get a new bowl? Desperately needing to avoid another er visit this week as July 4 is total nightmare at those places

First off, let me extend my deepest sympathies. We went through a similar scenario last year. One of our Goldens and our beagle mix passed away. It left our remaining Golden despondent. The solution ended up being two new Goldens (Rose Tyler & River Song). After about a week of showing the new puppies the hierarchy, she started having fun and has been back to her "normal" self. While this may not be an option for you, it has been fantastic for us.
 
Yeah I cannot entertain another dog for a long long time. I may get a new water bowl or put chicken broth in there to help.

Kinda figured it wouldn't be a good option in your situation but it works for all parties involved when it is an option. You may want to consider getting rid of any toys or other shared items that have your good boy's scent on it.
 
Kinda figured it wouldn't be a good option in your situation but it works for all parties involved when it is an option. You may want to consider getting rid of any toys or other shared items that have your good boy's scent on it.

Oddly enough, I put some water and chicken broth in her bowl today and she refused to drink it. Then I moved her bowl to a different room and she drank a lot. I guess psychologically maybe she doesn’t want to eat or drink in same spot without him
 
I was just going to post that. Make it different somehow. We had to do that when we lost one of our doggies a few years ago. Changed both the bowl and the location. Interesting and weird.
 
CEO of the company I left a couple of months ago. 38. Fck cancer. He was a rare executive who truly cared about everyone he employed and went to the mat for people.

It started back in 2020. He had gone into remission by the time I joined, but had a recurrence earlier this spring. The initial prognosis had been positive, as they thought they had caught it earlier this time. No such luck.
 
CEO of the company I left a couple of months ago. 38. Fck cancer. He was a rare executive who truly cared about everyone he employed and went to the mat for people.

It started back in 2020. He had gone into remission by the time I joined, but had a recurrence earlier this spring. The initial prognosis had been positive, as they thought they had caught it earlier this time. No such luck.

my daughter’s kindergarten teacher, 34, of breast cancer. Fought for 4 years :(
 
Jim Inhofe, former GOP Senator from Oklahoma. I would like to think if there were an afterlife he would be experiencing some rather dramatic climate change.

Edit: Wow, sorry to DGF. Glad to read the doggo is drinking now. When I lost my dog of 10 years a while ago it was horrible, but she was an only pup.
And sorry to jericho as well, way too young. Hope your daughter and the teacher's family are doing well.
 
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Random update. I let my dog sniff the collar of our departed bestie and that seemed to flip a switch in her. She started drinking water from the water bowl all of a sudden and her eating is near normal.

not even two full weeks yet since he left us so I think she’s doing quite well. Upping her gabapentin too
 
When I first met my wife, she had a pair of rescues. One was a senior bulldog on hospice that ended up living 2 years past his prognosis, the other was a much-younger and smaller dachshund and they were a bonded pair. When we finally had to put the bulldog down, the dachshund spent a month in bed for most of each day and she didn't really pull out of it until the whole winter passed.
 
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