geo pets

[shrek and fiona]

this may not be a good topic does any one have a geo pet that they want remembered
for me it is my cocker spaniel her name Lady she was to old to go geo caching but she would of loved it her favorite things ride motorcycle bycycle and most of all to eat
6/27/90 1/18/04

[Cathunter]

Sorry to hear of your loss. My “Buffy” passed on well over 15 years ago. My first cache was placed as a memorial to remember him by.
Buffy

[Hotdogs_Off_Trail]

We understand your loss and our thoughts are with you. At the event cache “Caching Through the Snow” coming up this weekend, we have a cache named “Bogie’s View of the Sauk Prairie” for our wonderful Irish Setter Bogie. He hiked and loved the Blackhawk Ridge area with us so often and would have loved geocaching, but passed away before we began caching.
They are such true friends!

[Ray]

Unless you have had pets and enjoyed the incredible bonding that can exist between a human and a furry family friend, it is very difficult to understand that the grief for a lost pet can easily be as intense as that for a lost brother or sister. It must have been difficult for you to bring these emotions to the boards. Then too, “grief shared is grief diminished.” We hope that you experience some relief and comfort from doing this and seeing how empathetic your friends here can be. At times like this, we are awakened to the fact that the pain you are feeling now is good in that if you felt no pain then you loss would have been of no consequence. This life, now gone would not have been so cherished. Let there be pain, let us share it with you so that when that pain does subside, you will be filled with the wonderful memories you have of your relationship.

[sbukosky]

You’ll see many of my logs signed as sbukosky and Kanook. He is my current partner, a two year old Husky that we got as a pup. My first Husky pup was Kanuk. We bought him when we were young and had our second baby and I was working late at night. Kanuk would love to go to the family lake cabin and hike around with me. He developed kidney failure at the old age of 13. Twenty some years later the babies are on their own and we have an emptiness in our hearts to fill. We adopted our present Husky and named him Kanook as a remembrance of our first. I keep a picture of Kanuk right here by the computer so I never forget.

I was away on business the last few days and Pat said that Kanook would get real antsy around five thirty. I should be home by now and I wasn’t and he knew things were not right. Today I returned home at my usual time and for the first time in two years, he was looking out of the living room window as I drove in. All is well again.

Sometimes I’ll see him staring at a wall. I’ll look up and its a picture of one of the grandchildren that he’s looking at. Sometimes he will show interest in something on television, but ignores most of it. A wise creature.

I take him to a dog park often, so he gets better excersize than he gets at home and so he can socialize with other dogs. So many personalities. So much bonding with their humans. If my dogs won’t be waiting for me in the here after, I don’t think I want to go.

[The Lil Otter]

My Dusty dog (15# maltese) travels with me in spring/fall when it is cooler.. she doesn’t bound out the door because she enjoys napping while I hike a bit.. I never do long ones when she is with me.. even tried taking her out caching on two of them but ended up carrying her (grins) 15 pounds sure gets heavy after awhile..

She is 15 years old and has no teeth, so her tongue hangs out (smiles).. I was once parked on the side of a IL roadway and didn’t realize the police saw me dash out of the van and into the bushes.. when I returned.. there they were talking to my pup and wondering if she was okay.. (remember her tongue was hanging out like she might have been dehydrating).. she was bounding all over the van all excited about the company and both the police and I had a good chat about geocaching.

But I know one day that my Dusty gal will leave my side.. but not because she wanted to.. and it’ll feel odd that no one is there to welcome me back home.

~The Lil Otter

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