A Dog's Last Will and Testament

[Duppers]

Tissue advisory.



❤

I have an understanding with my adult son, my only offspring, where he has sworn to take any furbaby/ies hubs and I might leave upon my/our passing. Our home will always be open to another rescue when our two pass. There are too many needing homes.

[donkeypoofed]

1. That's beautiful!! I am bawling here.

If There are no animals in Heaven, I'm not going.
I will tell God to give my warmest regards to my family and then ask to be able to go join my pets.

But God loves our pets too and would never take them from us forever. Our pets are waiting for us and will be the first to greet us when we return home. So if you're grieving a pet, just be on the lookout for that familiar weight on the bed snuggling close to you - that is somebody coming to say hello.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Hear, hear!

When I found out that I will die in a couple of years I was so glad that I would live long enough to take care of my 15 year old baby since I don't have kids who would take her. There is no way I could leave her. I also made a trust and left 75% of my assets to the humane society and an animal shelter I was a foster parent with 35 years ago. I also drew a map of where I want my ashes to go...around a plant that my other dog loved at our park and always went to first and her ashes are there and my current baby's ashes will go there too. We will all be there. My attorney said that tons of people are doing this.

[Duppers]

5. You made me cry.

Cried because of your very touching post here and for the fact that you'll be leaving us way too soon. I didn't know. I develop attachments to special DUers and you're certainly included among the most special.

I also intend to leave a part of our liquid assets to animal shelters since I love them more than I do people in general. Hubs and I agree on this. Besides, my son is "well-employed" and will have quite enough to care for himself. (I'll never have any grandchildren, thankgoodness. You know my thoughts on the coming catastrophic hell of global warming.)

[BigmanPigman]

6. It Isn't sad

for me, really. In fact I have been told I have a good/strange attitude. I am happy I can care for the warm, soft, sweet being that has given me so much love and happiness for so long. I really would be sad if I couldn't do that. Since I don't have kids I am also happy. I chose not to have any when I was young and now I won't feel guilty about leaving them with all the Climate Change issues they would have to face and the unknown number of years it will take for my wonderful country to recover from the orange disaster. See, there are silver linings galore by dying sooner than later. The only big downer is that I may lose all my assets due to the threat of losing the ACA and my medical insurance since I will need a series of expensive surgeries to reduce the severe pain I will be experiencing. I am not a fan of pain and morphine won't even help. I want to leave my assets to the doggies, not have it taken by hospitals (that makes me really super mad).

[Duppers]

9. Please keep us posted.

Publicly or privately. I sincerely want to know.





My response was delayed by the fact that what was left of Hurricane Michael tore up our neighborhood here in Williamsburg and left us and most of the 'Burg without power for 26 hrs. Wow, but were we ever taken by surprised by the punch this storm had left after traveling across land for almost 1000 miles.
Besides taking down a big tree in our back, thankfully there was no other damage to our property. Crews began working about 3:30am EST trying to remove big trees and repair powerlines. There are still some parts of our big neighborhood without power this am.

[BigmanPigman]

10. I heard that your state had the most power outages.

They got that repaired pretty quickly considering the number of those effected. We just had our first rainstorm in over 6 months (and thunder and lightening...a real treat). This is good timing since our two worse drought related fires occurred during the last week of Oct and we had only 25% of the average rainfall this year. My dog forgot what it was until she went out and got her toes wet. Even if she doesn't need to pee she forces a drop out to please me while she is getting drenched. She isn't afraid of thunder or getting wet. In fact she falls asleep in my arms when I give her a "bath" in the shower with me, I started doing this with my first dog since I figured I would end up wet anyway, so why not?

When I start getting the severe pain you will know it from my posts...I expect to be even angrier at the moron and GOP since they want to bankrupt me before I die.

I hope your area gets cleaned up quickly and back on track this weekend. Be careful and stay safe!!!

[Duppers]

11. Thank you. Will do.

Your baby wouldn't happen to be a Lab would she?

A few days ago I had to ask my Lab to get out of the shower because I didn't have time to bathe her. (Just adore that stinker. )

[BigmanPigman]

12. Both dogs are chihuahuas.

My first one would jump into the tub and stand there and wait for me to turn on the faucet so she could snap/bite at the water stream. She could do that for an hour, but we need to conserve water. This current fur baby had to have her leg cut off and reattached with muscles and ligaments and tendons, since they don't make really tiny metal hip joints, when she was 6 months old. I wanted to do physical therapy so I filled the tub with water every night for a month. Since she is small her legs couldn't touch the bottom and she had to doggie paddle. I held her in place for 30 min doing the doggie paddle. She recovered and runs all over the place...you wouldn't even know she almost lost her leg. This is why I am glad I will be able to take care of her, she needs me and I need her.

[Duppers]

13. Wow! You are the BEST mom! ❤

[Nictuku]

2. That made me cry

[Ohiogal]

3. That made me cry, too.

[JudyM]

7. Choked up. My beloved cat passed away 10 years ago next week.

[phylny]

8. This is so heartfelt.

We lost our first rescue dog/our third dog, Jack aka Mistah Buddy/my boy/best boy ever, in May. Blake has joined us and our second rescue, Chloe.

We also have an understanding in our family. It's comforting to know. Thanks for sharing this!

Jack:



Chloe and Blake, riding out the remnants of Hurricane Michael on our couch. They were not concerned.