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It is so sad that most pets have such sort lifespans. When my kids were about 6 I thought I was being nice and bought Dan a Hamster. He was the coolest little guy, a Teddy Bear and didn't have a mean bone in his body (some of them bite, etc) Every morning he would sit up in his cage and I would feed him some pieces of fruit from my Breakfast. Just a cool little guy.

But after a year he started to get sick so we rushed him to the Amimal Hospital and they gave us the bad news, Hamsters only last about a year or so. Dan and I cried together, he was heartbroken and it was a tough lesson for a 6 year old.

As I have mentioned, I am dreading the day when my cats get to that stage. They are getting up there and I see them slowing down quite a bit.

Don

Don we also have 3 cats in the house 2 about 6 yrs and 1 about 3 yrs . We have had a couple others who lived with us till there end . Another tough situation with them also. The hamster we did for the daughter thought it went fast. I sure didn't know that about hamsters.

Well wife is doggie shopping been online looking at the local breeders . She is looking into same bred these sure have went up in the last 11 yrs but oh well . Me with my hobby she deserves what ever i can give her .

I never knew that about Hamsters either, or I would have never gotten one for a 6 year old. The vet told us "he is just dying from old age" and he was one year old!

I know what you mean about replacement pets. The first though some people have is to go get another one to take the place of the one you just lost. But how can you replace the memories of a family member. However, after a while things start to heal and you will find yourself able to start considering a new member of the family.

It is never easy though. Most of the people on here have lost a pet or pets who were the world to them.

Don

1 of my cats is 13 now, tho he is still in good health.. the other day he kind of scared me, he was laying streached out in the chair as usual except he looked dead, tried tickling him on his paw ( always wakes him up ) didn't work, felt him and he kinda felt limp, really thought he was dead.. I picked him up and he was really limp, so I set him down thinking he was really dead, looked away for a second, and then looked back and he was awake and looking at me.. Sunday, I was doing the compression test on the Rambler and had the door open, the cat jumped in and sat down in the passenger side and looked thru the window.

my thoughts go out to you.. i know how tough it is.. my parents had a sheltie and it passed from old age and they have never replaced it... my dad would always give it a piece of his toast in the morning..to this day dad always still leaves 1 slice of toast on his plate..
recently my wife and i got our first dog, Hudson a bulldogge weve only had him 7 months and im sooo attached to him.. he rides shotgun wherever i go...

My Son Don emailed me this story. I thought I would share it.

Don

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AND ONE MORE.....................
S he is pregnant. He had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, then he continued to fight the fire.

When he finally got done putting the fire out,

he sat down to catch his breath and rest.

A photographer from the Charlotte North Carolina newspaper, noticed her in the distance looking at the fireman.

He saw her walking straight toward the firefighter

and wondered what she was going to do.

As he raised his camera, she came up to the tired man who had just saved her life and the lives of her babies and kissed him just as the photographer snapped this photograph.



And people say animals are dumb!

Denny thats the way Sierra was. A one of a kind. Pretzels working on me though. We lucked out with two great dogs! We have Sierra's ashes in a special place too!

My Son Don emailed me this story. I thought I would share it.

Don

Don a great story they know whats going on .