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Truly sorry for your loss Linda,

    Just the words, 'Dogless'...words I hope to never live.

When the time is right, you will know , that special someone will fill your heart with joy again...

Sorry to hear your sad news Hundemutter, I'm sure your next dog will have a great life too.

 

Margaret N-J

 

Thanks, Joni and Margaret.

Dear Linda,
I don't come to the board very often anymore so just saw your post. My heart goes out to you. RIP Taz. I find the older I get the harder I fall. I know that last year losing Remy caused me to fall off the face of the earth for awhile.

Years ago I read a quote from an old time GSD breeder. She said "when I die they will find my heart it like a fine old china plate crazed with fine little lines all across. Each line will be for a dog loved and lost whether it was with me for a lifetime or a few days or weeks."

I find the challenge these days is holding onto the hope that the glaze will hold and my heart won't break and finding the love and hope to go forward again in honor of the love and devotion that was given to us. I think that's it's wonderful you are open to that and to me it's a tribute to the love Taz brought into your life. I have been blessed in that each of my dogs in some way brought me to the dog that would follow. I hope that you may also have that blessing. Beth

Thanks, Beth. That's a very interesting concept in your last
sentence, as Vida very definitely led to Taz ! What happens
with the next one & if there's a connection remains to be seen;
I haven't started to look for another dog yet, partly due to a family
illness.

I, too, am in a situation in which I have limited space. A rescue would not place a dog with me if they demand that you have a fenced in yard.

However, I have had shepherds for the last 10 years or so. I am fortunate to have a private porch and a small yard surrounded by hedges. I do not put my dogs outdoors unattended. Even when they are out on my porch, I make certain I am able to be out there in a split second.

But what is good for the goose, is also good for the gander.

What I need to do to keep my dogs happy and healthy also works for me as well. I am in and out with them constantly. The house is for eating, sleeping, and relaxation as is the porch. Exercise is hitting the streets, going to the local park, or a drive to go hiking. Of course, it is more work and you have to have the time to do it. But I see that my dogs learn some things very quickly and retain their new knowledge. I also get to know them much better as well. In such close proximity, it is easy to develop a unique, more efficient way of communicating. I figure out what they want and they get their needs met. So it's almost like we are training each other!

I like that interpretation of life with dogs, Kinalog !   Sadly not everybody involved with dogs, including some

Rescue services people, seem able to see that it can be done with the right attitude.  

Especially their legal people who always seem hellbent in enforcing the rules (in case someone lets a dog

go to someone who promises the earth but then doesn't live up to it ? -  not that that can't happen anyway,

WITHIN their Rules.)

So sorry Hundmutter...I also come here infrequently anymore. It's so hard to find the words, we invest so much of ourselves in our companions, I feel as though it's the better part of our own selves that's lost.. peace to you...
jackie harris

Linda, of my last 2 GSD's, one was a 10 year old to whom I gave a retirement home; the second my current dog who needed a forever home. She was only 3 1/2 and I am her 8th and last owner.  They both came from the same breeder.

Your dog will find you.
 

OT - Jackie, how are  you?