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losing a dog,

You made her happy, she made you happy. Wonderful life together. What more could you of given?

I lost my first dog 3-4 years ago, still think about her daily. We still have pictures around all the family houses, we all loved her.

Mourning a death of a friend is hard and you will miss her, but sooth your pain with the knowledge she was so happy with and of the memories of the life she shared with you.

As for the children, it will be difficult to tell them and they may not understand now. In the future they will and they will overcome it and cherish her life too. Your dog saw you as the pack leader, time to be one.

Thoughts are with you.
 
Uncle Petey said:
You've never owned a dog, so stop working on pure assumption.

By your reasoning, any dog over what, 10-15KG is a no go.
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I didn't realise my questioning (which I am genuinely interested in knowing the answer to) would cause such uproar from dog owners. Apologies for any offence caused, mods feel free to delete my posts.
 
I never judge a dog by its breed.
Our little dog is X rotty and she even get apprehensive looks/judgements. She's never shown any aggression. (except when we play! But you really know the difference between play and aggression) she's 19 kg and a little softy

Was at a dog show at weekend and this akita came to see me. I didn't realise until the owner told me akitas have a tarnished name. You can pretty easily see if a random dog is likely to be aggressive soon as you get close. People who don't know often don't see the signs

Hope this thread doesn't deteriorate into a 'hoe dare you put that breed with kids' argument
 
RIP to your dog. I lost a cat (not quite the same) at 1 year old. Got a knock on the door from a neighbour just before I was going to set off to work to say he was dead in her back garden.

Left him in the garage as I had to go to work. Digging his grave and burying him (riggomortis set in) was a pretty horrible experience.

On another note I do kind of agree with what Adam is saying. I have a 2 year-old daughter and even with a dog like a cocker spaniel or something I'm paranoid something could happen. Even if playing, an accidental scratch or "nibble" or just bouncing into her could do a fair bit of damage
 
Sorry for your loss.

I wasn't a 'dog person' until I got my first dog (Jack Russell cross) 4 years ago, she got run over 2 months back right outside our house in front of me, mrs and the kids. It blew us all away and right then I truly understood I had indeed lost a member of the family and the bond I/we had with her.
 
Adam said:
I didn't realise my questioning (which I am genuinely interested in knowing the answer to) would cause such uproar from dog owners. Apologies for any offence caused, mods feel free to delete my posts.
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If there's any 'uproar' it's due to having to go through the same old GD merry go round every time someone posts a pic of a staffy and someone else has to start going on about them not being safe around kids, despite having zero experience with dogs, never mind the breed in question.

And as said, this thread isn't the platform for that debate. The guy just lost his dog ffs.
 
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My first staffy "Theo" got him 5 days before my wife gave birth to my son, never had an issue, he was the best part of 22KG, sadly passed away 5 years ago at the age of 5 due to having epilepsy.

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My current staffy "Alfie" best part of 25KG, had him for a puppy, around kids his whole life, the old next door neighbours kids would come around just to play with him, he is the softest thing around kids you could imagine.

Unless you have owned a SBT don't even try to justify a stupid throw away comment about having them around kids.
 
My, Sisters dog died last year, she had him for 15 years! she was crushed. He wasn't acting right for 2 weeks and 1 night he collapsed and couldn't get up, and his tongue was flopped out his mouth. She rushed him to hospital and iirc his kidneys had failed so they put him to sleep.

His name was Floyd and he was a Westie.
 
Sorry for your dog OP, especially when it's a sudden death. Of course losing a dog to prolonged illness is also heartbreaking but when an otherwise healthy dog just keels over is something else. Hopefully it is nothing malicious like poison.
 
Adam said:
It's a shame but I have never understood why people place big powerful dogs like this in an environment with kids. I'm sure the chances are slim of anything nasty happening but if something did happen then I'm not sure how a child could defend themselves. The consequences would be horrific!
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despite some of the replies I do understand where your coming from Adam,

they are a very powerful breed of dog and whilst our staffy was rather small at 15kg she was as you rightly pointed out all muscle.


this is a dog that could chew through solid oak and had enough bite pressure to crush tin cans quite happily.

But that very same dog was brought up with my kids from a young age and like most dogs correctly raised in a family environment our family was her pack. I come from a family of dog breeders and showers, Rotties, deerhounds and Akitas on my side of the family. my wifes family are also "doggy" people albeit staffs.

there is no such thing as a bad dog. merely poorly raised or mistreated ones. I would ask though Adam that you find someone you know who owns a well adjusted and raised staffy and spend some time with it,


I can guarantee a couple of things.


you will survive the experience with all your limbs intact.
you will need to change due to being absolutely soaked in doggy saliva and kisses. Staffys in particular are a very loving and attention seeking breed, go on spend some quality time with one. you'll like it
 
Feel for you mate :(. We've always had dogs so I know exactly what it's like when you lose one. Our current dog isn't in the greatest health at the moment so I'm worrying about the inevitable coming sooner rather than later :(.
 
Such a pretty dog:(


When we lost our dogs and my eldest nephew was 8 they got told the dogs had gone to live in the sky as nicer way of them learning the dogs died
 
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