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Dogs die all the time, and people don't have to make blog posts about it. And I'm not here to boohoo, but how it happened was rather weird.
I was away out of state. On Saturday at around 8pm our neighbor heard the dogs barking furiously. When my father got home, our three dogs were gone, and the gate open. A friend reported seeing a pickup driving around with three dogs that looked like ours. Someone dognapped them 
My father, grandfather and aunt drove around and never found them. On Monday, animal control picked up one Brittany, then another and returned them to my father. We had the daughter and mother back, but not the grandmother. We never ride with them in the back of the truck, because they'll jump straight out. Uncontrollable, thankfully. The dognapper probably got to the first stoplight and they took off.
Animal Control also reported that someone had found a very old, dead Springer Spaniel on the side of the road down the hill from our house (our dogs are Brittany Spaniels, but easy mistake so it could have been her). None of the dogs had their collars (they were off for cleaning after the skunk incident the week before, see previous entry). This "springer" had no collar. Our dogs were all chipped, but animal control had no chip reader. The springer was buried at the dump, and my father was not allowed to dig it up to see if it was our dog. If it was, how did she die? Hit by a car? Just lay down and died?
Dad avoided telling us for a few days, hoping she'd show up at the front porch. It wouldn't be unprecedented. She got lost in the middle of Winter a couple years ago (December in Wyoming = cold) but turned up at a redneck families porch who fed her and kept her until I could go retrieve her.
Well, a week later she isn't back. While we can't know for sure it was her on the side of the road, it probably was. I'm not as busted up as I could be, because it was her time. She was almost 16 years old, which is super old for a larger dog. She was deaf, going blind, and terribly arthritic. We hadn't put her down cause we are big softies, and last time we went hunting, she pointed and retrieved a bird. It was what she lived for, and we sort of hoped she'd die doing it one day.
On the other hand, we had no chance to say goodbye. Couldn't bury her with other dead pets at the cabin, etc. I'm pretty pissed at whoever did it. I still don't know why though. Why, when stealing dogs, did he bother with the old decrepit one? Was he jusit tired of barking? (ours do not bark, except at deer). Was it someone who wanted to rob the house but wanted to get rid of the alarm dogs first? I'm glad I'm back and likely to be home in the evenings while my dad is still operating. If that fucker comes back he'll face the armory. Bo's time was close at hand anyway, but if we had lost Two (she was the second of the litter, never got a real name) and/or Ressa as well I'd be super pissed.
Anyway, RIP Bo (named after Boadicea/Boudicca, a Celtic queen from Anglia, where we lived when we first got Bo).
Two and Bo helping us fish:
Ressa, Bo, and Two By the cabin:
Clockwise from top left, granddaughter, grandmother, mother
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I had a springer spaniel growing up, incredibly loyal and caring dog. She suddenly had a stroke though and lost her vision and most of her mobility. It was really sad when she died Dogs become part of the family
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Oh man I'm sorry for your loss... My heart jumped when I saw the pictures of the dogs, my Max is a Breton Spaniel, which doesnt look very differently. I can imagine how you feel
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Aw. Supercute dogfamily.
Sorry about your loss. =( !
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That is really sad. Makes me want to wtfpunch whoever would steal somebody's dogs. Like seriously, what kind of lowlife piece of trash does that. I am glad 2 of them returned home safely though, they are very cute dogs.
RIP
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Im so sorry.
And I truley mean that. *tear*
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I don't even know what to say I'm so pissed off.
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Is dognapping common? I am curious here since you would have to be one complete douchebag to steal someone's dogs.
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Yeah stealing dogs is a rather strange and unexpected thing for people to do...
I mean it made sense in Beethoven when the criminals were gonna steal all the puppies from the puppy store, but that's very different.
Sorry for your loss but it seems like you have a lot to be grateful for at the same time.
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Who steals a dog? I just don't understand that. Is there even a reason for somebody to do that?
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Ours are Brittany Spaniels (edited OP to make it more clear). The dead one was reported as a Springer so we hoped it wasn't her, but it probably was. Easy mistake to make.
TL, thanks. I know we're practically strangers, but it feld good to tell someone. I finally cried about it a little while reading replies. It was a loss, even if her age softens it a little and it's nice that I can stop acting otherwise.
On July 15 2009 05:43 micronesia wrote:
Sorry for your loss but it seems like you have a lot to be grateful for at the same time.
I do. I really do. I spend time with the remaining two every day now, even though they still smell slightly of skunk D:
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You have really cute dogs!
The whole story is really sad though
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same thing happened to me a few months ago...it really sucks
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beautiful dogs!
She lived a long life though, so be happy for her~
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Oh they they're so cute. Sad story indeed, I'm sorry for your loss
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On July 15 2009 07:01 FragKrag wrote:
beautiful dogs!
She lived a long life though, so be happy for her~
Yeah at least that.
I'm so sorry that this happened to you, it really makes me wonder what kind of people are out there...
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sorry for your losses but i'm curious as anything to find out who the hell would steal dogs
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sorry for your losses... cheer up and be strong....
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Aw, they're great looking cockers there. I've had a few myself in my past so I feel you =/
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Sorry for your loss, I too have a britney Spaniel.
Except she is fat and my family never goes hunting. I need to go hunting with her before it is too late though (she is 10 or 11 right now).
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On July 15 2009 05:46 ghermination wrote:
Who steals a dog? I just don't understand that. Is there even a reason for somebody to do that?
I hate to even think of it but, maybe dogfights. I couldn't see a dognapped doggy being useful otherwise.
EDIT: sorry for double post
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geeze, that's so weird
wonder why someone would do that
is that breed of dog worth a decent amount of money or something?
even dogfighting seems like a weird purpose. dogfighting dogs need to be trained, and an old one would be worthless.
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this makes me so sad and angry at the same time.
take care of the other two
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Sorry man :[
Recently lost one of my dogs as well, so I know how much it sucks. But to know someone else was responsible for it, and not be able to do anything about it? That just makes it even worse.
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those are pretty baller dogs.
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Dog stealing is pretty common where I live. People steal them to sell, and of course, when you're dealing with living, squirming creatures, you're not going to take your time to figure out which is worth more, right? You'll just grab them all.
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