Blair Kiel posted:You love 'em to death...and they die and break your heart.
Lizzie (left) dropped dead of heart failure 2 years ago and I still cry when I think of her....Tyson is on his last legs...could be any week or month now...I'll cry again.
I've cried 4 times in 20 years and all 4 times it was over dogs.
I hear you. I dislocated and fractured both elbows in a second story fall from a ladder, and dislocated both shoulders in a skiing mishap and both times never shed a tear. When my black lab was in his last week, I got weepy each time I walked him, knowing our time was coming to an end. The last two days before putting him down, I openly cried in front of neighbors who stopped to pet him on our walks. The biggest reason I considered not getting another dog was thinking of the time I would have to go through that again.