I'm real sorry. We had to put our bassett hound down last night due to the same thing. God I miss her. Our lab is looking every where for her.

So sorry ... it's so sad to watch your other pets looking for one who's missing, because you can't explain to them what happened. When I was young my sister and I had cats who were brother and sister ... the brother died young, and for years the other cat would go sit right on his grave. It was strange how she knew.

Sorry for your loss. This is such a sad thread.:( On the other hand, it is a gift to have something that brings such love to your life ... even if it brings grief in the end.

Our bassett was almost 10. She had chemo 2 years ago so we did get 2 extra years. She was one of those dogs that are larger than life.
Stimpy451 we had a tricolor corgi when I was in my late teens. They are amazing dogs and for being a small dog I would say they are tougher than dogs twice their size. Ours belonged to my parents and later I got a 110 pound german Sheppard but when they were together the corgi ran the show.

I am so sorry - we have three Corgi's, and they love to drive* in the either the 560 or the 380SL in the summer (they have no preference) with the tops down. One of them looks almost exactly like yours. They are 10, 9, and 2 years old.

I've gone through what you are going through too many times, and every time I get a new dog, I tell the puppy that I hope it outlives me so I don't have to go through the trauma again. This hasn't happened yet, but I still have dogs because they add so much to our lives.

*And I mean, drive - one stands on the armrest and captains, I just execute the manouvers - straight to the dog park.

Sorry to hear that, man. :( One of our neighbors is going through the same thing with her Shih Tzu. She's hoping he can make it through Christmas without any pain and suffering before doing the deed. If fact, she bought a new house a little further up the street but Gizmo really doesn't like it there so she's got an agreement with the buyer of her old house to let them stay there until the time comes.

Well, Max is still hanging in there. He reacted really well to the prednisone increase, he's up to 20mg BID for a total of 40mg a day which is very high. Other than the rapidly-progressing lumps, you can't tell there's anything wrong with him. I took him to Pet Supplies Plus and he got 4 new squeaky prickleballs (he LIVES to herd the prickleballs and squeek them for hours at a time).

Then I took him and his sister (White Dog, a lab) to the extended family Christmas party and he got SPOILED. We're talking huge pieces of ham, meatballs and chicken. We had a huge back room to play in so he could play prickle. White Dog decided to join in and play keep-away, but Max wore her out and she ended up on the couch with a blanket that night.

He's happy for now.

Max LOVES Umlaut. The front seat is big enough for him to stretch out, and he can see out the windows without having to jump up on the dash. He's got a thick undercoat, so the fact that I can have heat on my side and he can have cold air is a definite plus.

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Max, prickleball, shredded beach ball, White Dog

Stimpy, I know it's especially hard when a furry loved one has to start the journey to the Rainbow Bridge but rest assured he had the best dog life ever because he was in your care.

Man it's just not fair. I guess a short lifespan is what you endure in order to have a pure soul.

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Max was my wife's dog before I met her. He soon became my dog as we bonded. He's the kind of pup that you can look in his eyes and know what he's thinking.

When we met, he was grossly overweight and couldn't make it up the stairs half the time. I brought him home his first prickleball and he went ape**** over it, so we would do that and then he started running with me. He got into really good shape for an older Corgi...the pic above was last summer up at Higgins Lake. I didn't even know Corgis could swim, but he jumped in after watching us play and swam like crazy. Couldn't keep him out of the water.

Great memories up at the lake, camping. We'd walk up to the ice cream store and get puppy sundaes with dog treats in them and it seemed like the best thing in the world to them.

GUH I'm not handling this well

I like this, thanks.

I just remember how hilarious it was the first time I went wakeboarding with the dogs in the boat. Max would be up near the transom barking at me because he thought i was getting hurt.

Most of the time he was right.

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Maxwell the Wonder Cori

Great video. He looks like a Maxwell.

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Cooling off in a snowbank PSSSSHSHSHSHSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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This was the year he went as the Unknown Comic for Halloween.