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Old 02-01-2021, 08:35 AM   #1128
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Yesterday I had to put down the first dog I've ever had. My wife and I adopted Diesel(half pug half beagle) in the spring of 2010 a few months after we got married. He was already just over a year old, a family bought him and kept him for around a year but they realized they couldn't care for him. We've now have a 7 year old son and a 2 year old daughter and he was like a best friend to both of them. We almost had to put him down before Christmas but he seemed to perk up a lot but in January he just started to decline more and more. We had the talk with my son back then and even though we didn't end up doing it then, I think it really helped him prepare for things. My daughter doesn't understand and she's still looking for him this morning.

He was there for me all the time but especially when I needed him most. To make a long story short, we bought a house and hired a company to gut it and rebuild it and ended up being scammed pretty badly. We were essentially homeless, broke and ended up living in my in-laws house. I was at my lowest low and almost did something pretty bad but he stopped me. I've gotten a lot of help and worked through a lot of my issues and he was there for every step of it.

He wasn't the best dog by any means but I owe him my life and it absolutely gutted me to do it yesterday. I'm a complete mess today and don't know what to do. I'm home with our daughter and she keeps looking for him and asking where he is, my son went to school but said if he feels sad he'd come home. I feel sorry for everyone who's lost a pet and now know how it feels.
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