I am glad you decided to be there. As I read this thread my eyes welled up. I lost my lab of 11 years this past Dec. I am 51 years old and still cried like a baby. Still to this day when I come home and he's not at the door waiting to fetchI feel an emptiness. So far I am refusing to get another so I don't have to go through that again.

Ron,

Sorry foryour loss. Ive been there and its not easy.

Nothing wrong when a grown man cries for his best freind. I'd want to be there.

brother, im fighting back crying now, never is an easy thing but it was what needed to be done. Ive been there myself, who would think that something like this could break a 6ft3 240# tattooed roughneck but it does. Hang in there tim will heal

I'd be a liar if I said my eyes weren't watering right now. My Australian Shepard / Lab mix (Casey) isn't even 3 years old yet and there are days I get choked up and shed a tear just thinking about the day that he isn't here. As others have said, I have seen my fair share of human death and it just gets shoved aside as part of life with a little mourning. When it comes to dogs though there's just no holding back the tears.

My deepest symapthies and condolences are with you and yours my friend!!!!