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Dago said:
She was doing a lot better and then on Friday got an infection in her eye and stopped eating. Just put her to sleep. Going to miss you Hartley. Thanks for everything.

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Sorry buddy.. youre probably in for a rough time, but only b/c of the bond yall shared …. I feel like dogs are put here for a brief time to teach us lessons, then theyre gone…. my Brees has been gone a little over four months, i miss him every single day- but i keep reminding myself of the old Dr Suess quote- i try to remember: ‘dont cry because it’s over- smile, because it happened‘.. Job well done, Hartley .
 
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Sorry buddy.. youre probably in for a rough time, but only b/c of the bond yall shared …. I feel like dogs are put here for a brief time to teach us lessons, then theyre gone…. my Brees has been gone a little over four months, i miss him every single day- but i keep reminding myself of the old Dr Suess quote- i try to remember: ‘dont cry because it’s over- smile, because it happened‘.. Job well done, Hartley .
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Thanks man
 
Mr. Blue Sky said:
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Sorry buddy.. youre probably in for a rough time, but only b/c of the bond yall shared …. I feel like dogs are put here for a brief time to teach us lessons, then theyre gone…. my Brees has been gone a little over four months, i miss him every single day- but i keep reminding myself of the old Dr Suess quote- i try to remember: ‘dont cry because it’s over- smile, because it happened‘.. Job well done, Hartley .
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My boy passed unexpectedly not quite two months ago, and it still breaks my heart every day when I think about him. Every day. It's always hard losing a pet...but he was exceptional, just a rare animal. The gold standard of all the pets I've ever had.

My wife woke up in the middle of the night and heard him breathing funny and went to check on him. She tried to soothe him, but after a few minutes he gave a last gasp...and then he died. (Then she freaked out and woke me up.)

We'll never know for sure, but based on what my wife witnessed (he had collapsed and gone into shock, and then died quickly), he almost certainly suffered some kind of internal hemorrhage, possibly from hemangiosarcoma (it's what makes the most sense...actually the only thing that makes any sense).

He had gone in for dental work and a mass removal a week earlier, which at first we thought might be related, but all indications were he was healing fine, and the mass was a lump on his right front shoulder, so that didn't make sense (he would have had to have ripped his stitches out to have bled enough to go into shock like he did). He was only 10 1/2 and outwardly quite healthy, so the only thing that makes sense is something internal.

Like you say, all I can do is be grateful for the time we had with him. I knew he was going to break my heart one day, but thought that was still at least a few years away.
 
Booker said:
My boy passed unexpectedly not quite two months ago, and it still breaks my heart every day when I think about him. Every day. It's always hard losing a pet...but he was exceptional, just a rare animal. The gold standard of all the pets I've ever had.

My wife woke up in the middle of the night and heard him breathing funny and went to check on him. She tried to soothe him, but after a few minutes he gave a last gasp...and then he died. (Then she freaked out and woke me up.)

We'll never know for sure, but based on what my wife witnessed (he had collapsed and gone into shock, and then died quickly), he almost certainly suffered some kind of internal hemorrhage, possibly from hemangiosarcoma (it's what makes the most sense...actually the only thing that makes any sense).

He had gone in for dental work and a mass removal a week earlier, which at first we thought might be related, but all indications were he was healing fine, and the mass was a lump on his right front shoulder, so that didn't make sense (he would have had to have ripped his stitches out to have bled enough to go into shock like he did). He was only 10 1/2 and outwardly quite healthy, so the only thing that makes sense is something internal.

Like you say, all I can do is be grateful for the time we had with him. I knew he was going to break my heart one day, but thought that was still at least a few years away.
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Yeah Hartley never left my side thru all the spine surgeries, losing my business, and the divorce. She was one of a kind.
I feel cheated because she bounced back from the initial kidney issues and I thought I was going to get another year with her and she's gone a couple weeks later.
But I should feel grateful that I had her for 14 years. Just wasn't enough.
 

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