The biggest tragedy of pet ownership is that they just don’t live long enough.
This is true, but there is no ‘long enough’ unless it is ‘from the moment you get it until you die.’ The pain of losing a dog is just an unfortunate part of having a dog and they just will never live long enough for you to not feel that pain.
My sister lost her dog this weekend in a freak accident and everyone in the family - not just her husband and kids - are devastated. He was such an essential part of every gathering.
He wasn’t just a dog, he was my friend.
I’m sorry. I know your heart is broken and nothing but time can ease it. I lost my cat in January at 15 years old from hyperthyroid related kidney failure. We met when she was a feral kitten and ran out from under a food truck and tried to take me down by the ankle. We bonded instantly. It has me at a heightened state of awareness of the mortality of my two dogs and remaining cat. It hurts like hell and I’m so sorry you lost your friend.
I’m sorry for your loss. My dog is getting older and I don’t know what my family will do without her when she passes away.
Yep. I can remember this past October when we lost our dog of 15 years, telling myself and my girlfriend that we were never going to avoid this happening to him/us. There was no magic formula or pill or procedure that was going to give him to us forever.
And while it didn’t necessarily make us feel better about it, it made enough sense that it helped us cope with the loss with better understanding.
I’m watching my dog get gray in the muzzle and struggling with this myself. Thank you.
Yeah! The world needs more good boys!
Yes, but also more homes for the good boys already in shelters waiting to be adopted.
Neutering and spaying dogs should be a requirement for ownership unless you are some sort of registered and certified breeder of some sort with a limited amount of licenses allowed to prevent over breeding.
can’t afford to get my old man back fixed, but rich people dogs gonna live forever
In America, you can get free coverage if you are broke enough.
Where are you living? What kind of income?
And you think dog vaccines are bad because you have other problems? You should be embarrassed for letting your hurt turn into intentionally wishing more pain and death on others.
I’m sure your father would love to see your love for him turn into pointless hatred for dogs.
A few thoughts: Yes, this is literally animal testing.
This study was published 2.5 years ago.
Overall survival at 1 year at 65 % vs 35-40 with standard of care.
No serious side effects.
The peptide sequence was carefully selected.
Original scientific article link for those interested. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8379704/
In humans a 12 month OS change from 35-40% to 65% is impressive. I would be super excited about a therapy for my pup that would add 6 months to my pup’s life. The median survival improvement from 307 days to 478 days is enough for me to ask for that therapy instead of chemo and amputation for my pup’s osteosarcoma or other HER2 driven cancers.
