A Sad Dog Tale With A Happier Ending

Thanks to Pet Talk member Linda for sharing your story. I lost my old dog last month and your experience really hit home. Trish

I as many other millions of people I LOVE my dogs.

I have always had English Bull Terriers and love all animals. Last year I lost two of my dogs, Bruce and Megan, Bruce died first in his sleep, at the age of of nearly thirteen, at this time Megan had breast cancer, I was devastated she was twelve at the time.

After a brave long fight by my dog and my family, three cancer op's later we had to let her go. In my life I have never felt so helpless and such pain, that was it never again would I have a dog, the heart break was more than I could take. My son told my husband that he used to hear me sobbing in bed as my dogs were everything to me.

After a lot of thought by my family, a puppy was brought home. I thought I would never be able to bond with this animal, I felt somehow I was letting the memory of my other dogs down, crazy I know.
















Now I have a strong love and bond with my dog, he is eight months old now and his name is Bubba, and I now see things in him that remind me of my other dogs and he is a joy to have.

Nine New Kittens For Maz

My beautiful clever oriental girl gave birth to nine gorgeous little kittens 2 weeks ago, and so far hasn't needed any help supplementing the kittens feeds.I'm so proud of her!

Zoltan The Doberman Saves The Day

My children and husband had gone to bed, I was sat in front of the fire with my Doberman Zoltan.

I decided to go to bed as I was shattered, so I turned the fire off and left the living room where Zoltan sleeps on the couch and went to bed.

Ten minutes later, Zoltan still hadn't calmed down - he was scratching, barking, howling and finally he was trying to break the door down.

So I finally went into the living room to see what was wrong. As I entered the living room, there was a smell of gas...It turned out I hadn't turned the fire off properly. The flames had gone but the gas was still coming out.

God knows what would have happened that night if I didnt have my dog.

Thanks for this story to Debbie and Zoltan. It proves that dogs can sense when something is not right. Trish

Joanne's Story - Poppy and Daisy

Hiys I was just reading about spaying and neutering cats.

I just wanted to share my story. Two and a half years ago I had a female cat called Poppy who got pregnant and nursed her three kittens very well. I had to keep hold of one of her kittens because it wasn`t feeding too well so wanted to keep an eye on it a bit longer before rehoming.

Poppy went in to be spayed when her babies reached twelve weeks. Only a few hours later I received a phone call from the vet saying Poppy`s heart had stopped while on the table and they had done all they could for her. I was so upset, in fact I was heart-broken as Poppy was my li'l baby.

I kept that kitten that wasn`t feeding to remind me of her mum although they look sooooooooo different. Poppy was a long haired tortoishell and Dasiy is a short haired mainly white beauty. Daisy will be three in March and I am finally going to have the courage to have her spayed. I have a litter of seven kittens at the moment that belong to Daisy purely because I was too scared to risk anything happening to my baby again.

The kittens are all going to their new homes at the end of january and then I will be booking Daisy in at the vet. I just wanted people to be aware that things can go wrong but not very often thankfully. I had no idea and was in shock for a long time. When Daisy goes in I will be informing the vet of Poppy`s history etc so wish me luck.

I am including a pic of Daisy with this post. Thankyou for taking the time to read this Joanne x

From Trish - Thanks Joanne. Poppy's story is very sad, but as you point out it's a very rare occurance. Daisy should be fine, although as she's related to Poppy it would be a very good idea to mention there has been a problem in the past. If you have a picture of Poppy that you'd like posted, let me know.