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My Dog Passed Away
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| xKaoSx |
No worse feeling I think then when your dog passes away.
He was 13 and a Champion show dog.
He went from 85 lbs to about 60 over the last 2 weeks
because he had a cancerous growth in his stomach.
This is my little memorial to him.
Ch Witchwynd March Madness CD "Cherokee" |
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| StereoPrincess |
Sorry to read this buddy.
For most people a dog is just like a family member. It is just as hard to lose a pet. |
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| Vlad |
My condolences.
This is why I would get a bird or a snake, cause they have long life spans. |
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| xKaoSx |
Well- when a bird or snake can do this ill think about it....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As many a dog owner will attest, our furry friends are listening. Now, for the doubters, there is scientific proof they understand much of what they hear.
German researchers have found a border collie named Rico who understands more than 200 words and can learn new ones as quickly as many children.
Patti Strand, an American Kennel Club board member, called the report "good news for those of us who talk to our dogs."
"Like parents of toddlers, we learned long ago the importance of spelling key words like bath, pill or vet when speaking in front of our dogs," Strand said. "Thanks to the researchers who've proven that people who talk to their dogs are cutting-edge communicators, not just a bunch of eccentrics."
The researchers found that Rico knows the names of dozens of play toys and can find the one called for by his owner. That is a vocabulary size about the same as apes, dolphins and parrots trained to understand words, the researchers say.
Rico can even take the next step, figuring out what a new word means.
The researchers put several known toys in a room along with one that Rico had not seen before. From a different room, Rico's owner asked him to fetch a toy, using a name for the toy the dog had never heard.
The border collie, a breed known primarily for its herding ability, was able to go to the room with the toys and, seven times out of 10, bring back the one he had not seen before. The dog seemingly understood that because he knew the names of all the other toys, the new one must be the one with the unfamiliar name.
"Apparently he was able to link the novel word to the novel item based on exclusion learning, either because he knew that the familiar items already had names or because they were not novel," said the researchers, led by Julia Fischer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.
A month later, he still remembered the name of that new toy three out of six times, even without having seen it since that first test. That is a rate the scientists said was equivalent to that of a 3-year-old.
Rico's learning ability may indicate that some parts of speech comprehension developed separately from human speech, the scientists said.
"You don't have to be able to talk to understand a lot," Fischer said. The team noted that dogs have evolved with humans and have been selected for their ability to respond to the communications of people.
Katrina Kelner, Science's deputy editor for life sciences, said "such fast, one-trial learning in dogs is remarkable. This ability suggests that the brain structures that support this kind of learning are not unique to humans and may have formed the evolutionary basis of some of the advanced language abilities of humans."
Perhaps, although Paul Bloom of Yale University urges caution.
"Children can understand words used in a range of contexts. Rico's understanding is manifested in his fetching behavior," Bloom writes in a commentary, also in Science.
Bloom calls for further experiments to answer several questions: Can Rico learn a word for something other than a small object to be fetched? Can he display knowledge of a word in some way other than fetching? Can he follow an instruction not to fetch something?
Fischer and her colleagues are still working with Rico to see if he can understand requests to put toys in boxes or to bring them to certain people. Rico was born in December 1994 and lives with his owners. He was tested at home. |
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| BTG |
| my 15 year old cat died in october. its weird cause whenever i open a can of tuna or somthing i always expect her to at my feet, then i remember "oh yah. she's dead :O" |
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| jonze234 |
| sorry to hear that man. dogs are great pets and are hard to replace. my dog is 15 and is still doing pretty good...i guess im just lucky. |
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| Slylee |
i am really sorry to hear that. i have an almost unhealthy attachment to my baby lex. he is not my dog, he's my child, and he's spoiled rotten. i don't know what i would do without him, so i can only imagine your pain.
it's going to take a while to get over this, but remember he is in a better place now and you'll be with him again some day:) |
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| Electronicapo1 |
Having a dog die does really feel bad. I'm very sorry for your loss.
Happened to me two years ago, my dog (amber) was laying on the couch, she had been having alot of trouble breathing for the past week or so. And we took her to the doctor, and we were giving her these pills. So she would take these really hard deep breaths that were really loud, and its about 2 am, im watchin tv. and i notice the breaths stop... so i walk towards her and realize, I just in ran, I didnt know what to do so I just ran and got my parents. |
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| wienerschnitzel |
| beautiful dog, and probably a very good friend... sorry for your loss! |
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| xKaoSx |
| quote: | Originally posted by Electronicapo1
Having a dog die does really feel bad. I'm very sorry for your loss.
Happened to me two years ago, my dog (amber) was laying on the couch, she had been having alot of trouble breathing for the past week or so. And we took her to the doctor, and we were giving her these pills. So she would take these really hard deep breaths that were really loud, and its about 2 am, im watchin tv. and i notice the breaths stop... so i walk towards her and realize, I just in ran, I didnt know what to do so I just ran and got my parents. |
Ugh- That would have been horrible- He wasnt doing well as it was and really had no chance to recover so the decision was made to just put him to sleep. He was in a lot of pain and couldnt even walk really.
Im not a big puss or anything but I was crying my little eyes out.
Luckily he left behind many offspring and his memory and spirit will live on through them.
Thanks for everyone's condolences. |
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| Redeye |
| quote: | Originally posted by xKaoSx
Ugh- That would have been horrible- He wasnt doing well as it was and really had no chance to recover so the decision was made to just put him to sleep. He was in a lot of pain and couldnt even walk really.
Im not a big puss or anything but I was crying my little eyes out.
Luckily he left behind many offspring and his memory and spirit will live on through them.
Thanks for everyone's condolences. |
I know what you are going thru. I put my dog to sleep last friday. He was diagnosed with spleen/liver cancer 2 weeks prior and the dr. gave him 1-2 months to live. He lasted only 2 weeks. 1 week after the diagnosis, he stopped eating, peeing, moving, etc...He would just lay down in his bed and look sad. After a few days of medicine that we tried I finally took him to the ER where they said he was going thru renal failure. They kept him in the ER overnight and on friday at 11am, while he sat in my lap they gave him an injection in his IV and his head slumped down. I have now down that 3 times and it never gets any easier.
I do not consider dogs as pets, they are family and its like losing a part of yourself as well because of all the time and effort you put in. The hardest part was cleaning up all his toys afterwards. It still hurts sometimes when I come home and he isnt there to greet me, but as they say "time heals all wounds" |
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| Ian^ |
| My dog ben is like most others, not just a pet, but a member of the family, he's my pride & joy, and even though he's only been with us for 2 1/2 years, I wouldn't want to imagine life without him, people think you're nuts to consider 'just an animal' as part of family, but we all know that it's more. I feel ya pain mate, and I think anyone else who loves dogs do, they're so full of life & always happy to see you. Hope you in time get another dog who can be equally as precious to you |
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