Has anyone lost their best friend?

OK, enuff! I was at the rescue shelter yesterday looking at boxer mixes to adopt and then I read this...LOL...how fitting!
Seriously...my condolences to you all. My shepherd, Max, died a few years ago. What a great dog and a great personality.

It hurts beyond words to suffer the loss of a special friend. When you get to heaven your dog will be waiting to welcome you.

This may help:

http://www.petloss.com/poems/maingrp/rainbowb.htm

Kmulkey: Get the Boxer! Salsa is our second one - I alluded to the loss of our first one (Phoebe) above. Talk about a family member!! The hard part is what Dapom is experiencing today and it comes for all of us sooner or later.

I lost my good friend Paul a few years ago when I lived in NJ. He was a great guy and loved by his family and all who knew him. We'd go to audio club meetings together and invite eachother over to listen to our latest musical finds.

But he developed a rare form of skin cancer that took him out in a couple of months. It was very sad.

I've since moved to Tucson and haven't made a friend like Paul here as yet. Everyone seems so self-absorbed and too busy to drive 20 minutes and spend an hour or so listening to great music. That's pretty sad as well. I can still hear Paul's laugh. So don't take your friends for granted. The day you will miss them comes all too quickly.