I lost my best friend in the world in September. We were like batman and robin, and for almost 15 years we did everything together. He was by my side 99% of his life.
I got him kind of foisted on me as a puppy. I was pg with dd1 when exdp turned up with him. Exdp worked a fair bit doing stuff it wouldn’t have been suitable to take a small pup to, so he became my dog from the word go really. I had all these pregnancy hormones rushing around my body and ddog was my baby. I completely mollycoddled him and never really treated him like an actual dog. He’d sleep on my pillow at night otherwise he’d cry. He’d sit up my jumper in the car otherwise he felt sick. We were completely in tune with each other from the start and that only deepened as the years passed.
I never trained him. It made no odds to me if he was sitting or standing, but he never really needed training, it’s like we could read each other’s minds and he never wanted to upset me. I didn’t even put him on a lead when we were out walking, he’d just stay by my side and wait with me until I told him to cross the road. I never ever got cross with him or hit him, I never needed to. It was pure love until the end.
The thing was, and I’m welling up now, he was such a cool little character. He was an odd looking little thing but everywhere we went he would have people fawning over him. My DM could never understand it, as she was determined not to like him out of principle, but even she had to agree that he had some weird magnetic affect on people. People would often say that he was like a little human. He even had his own car seat in the car as otherwise he’d get in dd’s! I think in his mind he was my eldest child.
Every single time I looked at him in those almost 15 years, my heart would melt. I think he even got more adorable in his old age. I don’t think I’ll ever get over losing him.
Friends have said I should get another dog, but my question is, how could I ever find a dog that amazing again? It would be like winning the lottery the first time you play it and then winning it again the next time. And truth be told, I do LIKE all dogs but when I look after friends’ dogs I generally find things about them quite annoying, which I never felt with my own dog. Which leads me to think that maybe I’m not really a dog person, I was just a ddog person, IYSWIM.
All this is a bit irrelevant as I’m nowhere near ready or able to get another dog right now, but I’m just interested in hearing others’ experiences of subsequent dogs after ‘the one’.
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AIBU to think another dog could never be as good as ddog?
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hooveringhamabeads · 24/11/2018 19:19
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