04-18-2014, 10:17 PM
thank you everyone for your kind comments, my father picked up Roamie's ashes and I told him I couldn't cope with having them in my house yet. I have a big picture of our Roamie on my refridgerator with what we called "his handsome pose"... I am really going to have to try to be a petless person for at least a while so that I can travel hassel free. I live in a fairly remote area though, so we do really like having a dog in the house to alert us to things like bears in our yard or unfamiliar cars coming up our long driveway. It is weird coming home from work at the end of the day to not having our Roamie Doodle Dandee greet us so happy we are home. It was time though, I'm just really glad that he died at home or on the way to the vets, it is really awfully hard to watch that death needle go into them and see them flinch. I'm really glad I didn't have to witness / participate in that. He was dead on arrival. For anyone with an extremely elderly pet whose health is failing I definitely recommend requesting for a sedative prior to bringing them to the vets. The last dog that I had to put down, my beloved shih-zhu that was 19 years old really flinched badly when the needle was put into him. It was really heartbreaking. I definitely am really going to try to not get another dog for quite awhile.