GREAT DANE FUN!

From: ber (Original Message)

Sent: 11/29/2007 8:39 AM

Hi Everyone, This will probably be my last posting in the Great Dane chat room. On Tuesday night both my Dukey and Lexis went to the rainbow bridge. This was the worst day of my life. We were all at home and I let Lexis in from outside. Duke was on the couch and I was walking to the kitchen so I didn't really get to see what happened. As you all know I have had some issues in the last year with Lexis picking fights with Duke. I Never figured out what caused them. On Tuesday I ran to pull them apart. Like usual I couldn't. I grabbed the fight stop spray and used the whole bottle on them. Usually this stops them but it didn't. I tried the pouring water on them. Nothing. They went through the kitchen, dining room and living room. I was scared to death. Lexis had a good hold of Dukes tail and was not letting go. I finally ran outside screaming for the neighbor who came over. By the time we got back Lexis was in her kennel bloody, wet and limping. Duke went to his kennel, not really sure how bloody since he is black but I could see literally chunks of his back hind end missing and gouged open. As I was trying to pull them apart earlier I ended up in the middle of it. I got a pair of jaws inserted into my leg. That was the least of my worries at this time. It is all so vivid in my head, the blood, everywhere, the parts of skin, muscle and fat tissue everywhere. It looked like a massacre in my house. I was so upset,scared,paniced. I knew that I could go and spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars at the vet but was this going to happen again down the road? What was going to happen next time? How bad were they hurt? How bad was I going to get hurt next time? After that I made the hardest decision of my life. Those dogs have been through hell and back with me. They kept me alive, sane, and motivated to get through all the horrible things in my life. THEY WERE MY CHILDREN. I lived for them and they lived for me. As I sat in that vet office watching the blood drip off of both of them I knew that I had made the right decision. I hope that all of you can understand that I couldn't chose between the two and I couldn't bare to go through this again. I loved those dogs with all my heart and this is a hard time for me. As I sat on the floor with each one of them I comforted them and never once told them goodbye. I know they are dogs but they know things like that and I didn't want to scare them. As each one went I talked to them, kissed them, petted them until the last breath was released.

I shut my eyes now and I see Lexis with her goofy sit and her ears perked up and I see Duke standing there so proud and tall with his ears flipped over the back of his head. They will always be remembered, missed, and loved and until I see them again I will go each day thinking about them. Rest in peace sweet mama's boy Duke and play hard my princess Lex.

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