Old Dogs - classic or dud

Poor Tracy. At least you lived with a really nice family while you were alive, old dog.

Echoing that. Sorry to hear it, sir -- dogs are the best.

Our family dog is getting older and looks it, especially when she limps after first getting up from her bed. I really hope this Xmas wasn't the last one I see her at.

Thanks everybody. Sad morning, but happy memories.

Sorry Rock.

xpost to Ned: My family's black lab is much the same. Getting much skinnier, grey muzzle, etc. She still pulls on the leash while on walks, but the years are piling up. The recent disappearance of the family cat (put to sleep in old age) has apparently spooked her out a bit, too.

I too am sorry to hear about Tracy. But it sounds like she had a good life.

Thanks, rener. She did have a good life.

I'm not up to digging a grave, and not sure where on our property we'd put it -- and she was too much a family member to be disposed of as medical waste -- so we're taking her down to the veterinary school in Starkville for cremation later this morning.

Aw, Tracy! I thought she'd make it to 20! What a good girl she was! Hugs, Rock Hardy and Jude.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/tracy.jpg

An extraordinarily pretty girl, and she knew it.

Our little girl - Abby - is a 5 pound Yorkie who still has a lot of fuss and fight left in her at 13. She keeps us entertained.

Little dogs live so long! Pictures of Abby!

I love puppies, I am such a dog for christmas type.

I am so much more excited over puppies than I am over human babies. All my molecules do the crazy dance when I see one. Dogs in general, actually. Their souls are right on the surface. My husband is the same way. Whenever we're away from home we make spectacles of ourselves, falling all over complete strangers' dogs, on account of our dog-starvation.

Rock - sorry about Tracy. 18 years... what a dog.

my 16 year old cocker was diagnosed with a sarcoma yesterday. the doctor told me that it might not be life-limiting, but he also has bad teeth and heart arrythmia. things aren't looking so great. last year he was a lot more lively, but now he mostly sleeps.

i'm feeling pretty low about this, but am trying to love him as much as i can while he's here and ok.

this is junie:
http://i29.tinypic.com/10e54sp.jpg

;_;

What a lovely old dog. Sorry to hear he's not well, but it sounds like he's got a good owner looking after him.

dear milk lady: ;_;

I think I love old dogs more than puppies. I'm pretty pumped because the place I'm moving into has a 14 year old kitty named Lizard. She sleeps all day and roams all night, and I work the graveyard shift full time, so I think she and I are gonna be best buds this summer.

thank you dudes. i am trying not to think about it and to spend lots of qt with my old man.

here is another photo of him, at dog day at the sox stadium (sorry if the img is huge.)

http://i31.tinypic.com/b703o5.jpg

look at his mustache!

Such a gorgeous guy, with that wavy blond hair and those dark dark eyes!

There is nothing more sad-happy than old dogs. I love them all.

He looks like he's doing some sports commentary there. Woof!

he got a haircut especially for the occasion
dog day at the sox park is really something to behold; there is a little parade around the field and then they periodically show people's dogs on the big screen. junie didn't make it to the screen, but he did pee in the stadium on his way out. classy!

he's so adorable!!

He looks like he's doing some sports commentary there. Woof!

Yah, he totally looks as if he's just grabbed the camera-lens with his paw and pulled it round to say something disparaging about whateveryanksport that is he's watching.

he does have a lot of opinions!

this is after he got tired of sports commentary
http://i30.tinypic.com/292mr8i.jpg

i am going to stop posting photos of my old dog now
i promise

=O

it's okay, no need

Oh god he looks so sweet and tired there.

Keep posting pictures.

GO SOX
http://i25.tinypic.com/2ymx4ao.jpg

sorry about the equipment in that photo

one more, then i am outta here

SNOOZIN
http://i27.tinypic.com/2dkpag.jpg

whoa
sorry about that
but dig his center part

I like that dog.

Oh, I'm sorry, La Lachera. Cockers have a real unparalleled sweetness. You've had each other for a good long time, and I'm sure he loves you.

At my parents' house in Oxford, have discovered a rather sad and lost looking old black lab sitting on the front steps. She has a mobile no. on her tag, but no answer from there, so we've let her into the garden.

She seems quite happy in the garden, blithely strolling through and rooting around in the borders, or rolling on the grass

http://i34.tinypic.com/24c9shy.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/24wznkj.jpg

Following a call to the dog warden, she has been collected by her owner. Didn't seem overly eager to be returning home! Apparently she is nine years old, and the last time she went missing she got on a bus headed for Wantage, 20 miles away!

That is an excellent grass roll, especially the first photo.

today we had to say goodbye to our little man, the best littledog who ever was and ever will be

can't stop crying
don't want to talk about it, but feel i should mention it here as there are photos of my boy upthread

my heart feels like it's in a vice whenever i think of him

i'm so so sorry, i loved those photos you posted of him, he looked like such a darling, i was admiring him just a couple of weeks ago when this thread was last revived.

Molly on the left is my 11 year old baby girl! Maggie on the right isn't old but she is huge!

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/Thanksgiving005.jpg

They are best buddies and they have bows on for the festive season.

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v640/203/62/513642357/n513642357_1238917_3396.jpg

(Not my dog; my aunt and uncle's.)

I just read the entire plot of the movie Old Dogs on wikipedia and still have no idea what it's about

Dan and Charlie make it out of the gorilla enclosure and into the penguin exhibit, where the penguin's attack Charlie as Dan hurries away. After once again finding he will not be able to make it to the party, he spots a superhero who has been hired by Vicki to fly in, as Emily wanted a superhero.

Robin Williams plays a penguin, I hope.

the previews are inscrutable. Like SETH GREEN GETS A GOLF BALL IN THE NADS THE MOVIE

in the profile of robin williams in the times the other week, all they said about this movie was that he didn't want to talk about it.

For what i've read on wiki, I'm gonna guess this was a wacky, mildly raunchy teen-comedy that Disney realized was terrible, so they neutered it and are marketing it as a family movie. But that's just a guess