I have to put my Shepherd down on Wednesday because she can't walk any more and falls down the stairs. She has been a good dog for 16 years. I hate this part of life.
She was my kids protector and has never bitten any human in her life. She fought bobcats at our old house and got skunked twice but never complained. On some nights she would run with the coyotes in the avocado ranch that was behind our house in the country.
It's hard to believe someone would dump her at the dog pound where we found her because she had too much of an adventuresome spirit.
She is so scared. When I carry her up the stairs she shakes because she is afraid that the 'alpha dog' isn't going to protect her.
STBXW came by and used her 'psychic' powers to determine that Diamond is ready to go, but is worried about me and D13 being ok.
STBXW didn't cry or show much sadness. I guess it's just me. I'm too sensitive.
She really did fight with bobcats, as well as one really ornery Possum who ran up a slanted tree, and Diamond followed it, fought with it (they don't always play dead) and shook it out of the tree. She hated the norwegian rats who ate out fruit trees and would catch them , shake them up and present them to us as 'gifts'.
Still though, her desire ... Read Moreto run with the coyotes who were howling on full moons was her greatest fun.
I think they thought she was one of them, even though she was a little bigger. She still smelled bad because she liked to roll in mud and stuff. so that made her a 'big coyot
