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Well Gang, as you know it has been quite a while since we did not have an Open Line Friday but last night was one of those. Just to give you a "heads up" as to why here is what happened.

This week on Thursday Rich headed back to school as his new year started. However, the evening before their family dog Chance, who by the way was about 16, passed on after a series of late night incidents. This happened while Rich was having some serious back problems also. He called me on Thursday morning to let me know. If you are not a dog owner and dog lover you may not get the impact of what it means to lose such a close and loving member of your family. Last year Vicki and I went thru that when we lost our beloved family member Buckwheat. I told Rich to not worry about doing DMR, I am sure the audience would understand. I thought about doing something else for Friday night then just decided to cancel the live Friday show for this week. At any rate I wanted to let you know why CyberstationUSA ran a best of for Friday night. If the good Lord is willing and the river doesn't rise too much, we all will be back this coming week. FYI.

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No worries Don and that sucks about Rich's dog I feel for him. Rich man I am sorry about your dog passing.

Been a while since you took Friday off and so you probably needed it.

See you next week.
 
Thanks for the update Don. Hang in there Rich, Chance, back problem and back to school, Rich has more then earned a break. Like you said Don, loosing a beloved pet is really a member of the family passing, so if you need a few weeks take all you need Rich.
 
People often talk about the close relationship to pet dogs and although we never owned a dog, we did have a cat in our family and I swear, the only time I have ever seen my dad cry was when she had to be put down. Absolutely a pet can be a beloved family member and I for one was devastated when our cat died. Years later and I still think of her very fondly. I can completely empathise with Rich being upset over the loss of his dog - it's horrible.
 
I cried for two days almost straight, when 'Kitty', my families and mine little Yorkshire Terrier passed..(I named her that and only in these last couple of years noticed the irony...). Dogs are indeed Man's best friend imho. Black Lab named Oscar to take care of these days, but I still mourn my Kitty as well. Cats might be cool and all, but the bond one shares with a dog is something else.. .
 
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The hardest thing I have ever done was, along with my mothers help was to help hold down our dog "Bear" while the doctor administered "the shot" and telling him it was going to be all right. The thing was, we had to bind his muzzle for our protection and I can only imagine what was going through his head at the time. He did kick and whine a little bit, he was obviously scared and confused but he was also quite weak so didn't put up much of a fight.

This was many years ago, in fact it was during my first trip back home after I had left it as a young man, I was about 21 at the time and obviously broken up about it because it was my first trip back home and here I was helping to kill my dog, but I knew at the time it had to be done because of his health problems and I was thankful for my parents as they had made the decision some weeks before that it was time for Bear to be put down but held off until I was there so i could say goodbye to my best childhood friend.

It was on my second day back home and my mom woke me up to tell me that the doctor was on his way and what was going to happen and she needed my help, and it was time to say goodbye, talk about a rude awakening.

My father was at work and my brother was off playing, he was about 13 or so and I still dont know if he knew what was happening at the time. I do remember both my mother and I hugging and holding each other and crying after it was done.

I also remember my relatives for visiting us to come see their nephew/cousin after his first triumphant return from the big city and we were telling them what we had to do today to the dog. Both my mother and I confessed to blubbering like babies after it was done and then my brother said "I don't see what the big deal is about, you don't see me crying about it". He was just a kid at the time and probably in denial a little bit so I cut him some slack but I also looked him in the eye and said "Well you also weren't holding him down telling him it was going to be all right when you knew you weren't going to see him again".
 
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Very sorry to hear of Rich's dogs passing, horrible news.

Here's sending the best of vibes across the Atlantic in the hope of some better health and happiness to the DMR Friday night crew.
 
I truly believe there is a place in the Goddess creation for us for those the pets we love a place that we and our pet can run and play forever...My thoughts and prayers to Rich in this hour...
 
years ago my family had two dogs mated since they were pups..one night we heard the male we called him duke howling.We found his mate daisy had died in the night. it took 3 grown men to get duke clear so we could bury daisy. from that day on Duke never strayed far from the spot where we buried her. and when he died we buried him next to her. we bolth know and understand..all the best from bolth of us...
 
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