by NCCF Editor | Jul 25, 2018 | Losing a Pet
There’s a day in every pet owner’s life that we know is coming but try our best not to acknowledge until it finally arrives. May 14 was that day for my wife and me. Lucy, the half Labrador-half golden retriever that my wife raised from a weeks-old puppy, died at the...
by NCCF Editor | Jun 27, 2018 | Losing a Pet
Whoever said diamonds are a girl’s best friend never owned a dog. If you’ve ever lost a beloved pet, you know just how true that old adage is. From dogs to cats to canaries to lizards, we humans form unbreakable bonds with our furry, feathered, and scaled friends. In...
by NCCF Editor | Jun 8, 2018 | Losing a Pet
It was day three, and I knew it was time. Three days earlier, my beautiful dog Molly refused to eat. It was unheard of for a dog who spent the first few months of her life as a stray foraging for food wherever she could find it and never, ever refusing anything edible...
by NCCF Editor | May 7, 2018 | Losing a Pet
In late March, my beagle-whippet cross, Minnie, died. Two months earlier, she had been diagnosed with Hemangiosarcoma, an invasive cancer of the blood vessels that is rare in humans but kills thousands of dogs every year. We found Minnie at a Melbourne shelter in 2007...
by NCCF Editor | May 2, 2018 | Losing a Pet
He entered my life as “Squirt,” the last in a litter of puppies to narrowly escape death. Weighing in at a mere 4 pounds and just over 3 months old, the tan and white terrier-pug mix, long-legged with jutting hip bones, was rescued from drowning along with his...
by NCCF Editor | Apr 27, 2018 | Losing a Pet
In her memoir I Found My Tribe, Ruth Fitzmaurice writes: “When a pet dies, there is an empty space left where they used to be. You no longer feel or hear them moving through your world. They are just gone.” The singular incident to provoke an outburst from...
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