Max is gone

I just wanted to say that my 10 yr. old Max passed over the Rainbow Bridge on 11/10/11 from liver failure. He was the GREATEST dog ever and he will be missed by me and my children. There can never be another sheepie like him.
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My condolences on your family's loss of your beloved Max. Sheepies do hold a unique place in our lives. I hope that you read the rainbow bridge poem to your children and that they are comforted by the thought of Max being healthy again and zooming around with other sheepies. :ghug:
I'm so sorry.

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Kristine
I'm so very sorry for your loss, Susan. :cry:

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These beautiful companions touch our hearts in ways some will never understand.
In time I hope the memories will again be bring smiles. Godspeed Max. :hearts:
I'm so sorry for your loss of Max Susan.

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Cindy
I am so sorry... :ghug:
Susan, I am so sorry for your loss of Max. :ghug:
So very sorry for you all. But know that Max loved you as much as you loved him. Much Love Debs, Geoff and Cloud :hearts:
I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your sweet sheepie boy Max. :ghug:

Tears,
I'm sorry to hear about Max. I hope your heart stops hurting soon.
I am sorry for your loss, it hurts so much, but try to remember all the good times.
I'm so sorry.... :ghug:
I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your Max. These guys tread so deeply in our hearts, it is so sad when one leaves us.
Thinking of you and your family missing dear Max. I hope your happy memories of a well-loved life together bring you peace.
I am so sorry to hear of your loss. Remember all of the joy Max brought to your family and all of the love you gave to Max. He will always be with you in memory.
I hope the pain is less as time goes on.
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I'm so sorry for your loss... :ghug:
Very sorry to hear about Max. Our prayers are with you..
They come into our lives and make us better. Bless his soul...
You will miss him forever. Sheepdogs just carve themselves into our hearts. My condolences to you. :ghug:
I am sorry for your loss, I'm sure you'll miss him every day. :(
I am sorry for your loss.
:hearts: :hearts: :hearts: Max will always be in your heart and part of you. :hearts: :hearts: :hearts: Very sorry for you loss. :ghug:
Nancy G
So sorry :cry: (hugs)
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss....

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Susan,

There is never a time when their departure is not a devestating loss, but to loose two of our forum family on single weekend is somehow especially wrong and poignant. We all join with you in feeling Max's leaving and offer to you our best wishes, support, love and prayers. You will never get over Max's leaving and most certainly wil never forget Max and his place in your heart and life. That is how it should be but eventually your current grief will fade and the memories you have of Max, his antics and the love you had for him and which he so many times over returned unconditionally will become what you think of when his name is heard, he comes to mind or you see something which reminds you of him. And there will also come a day when in those quiet times and maybe even those not so quiet times you will be able to feel Max walking besides you, telling you he is well, loves you always and will be waiting until your journey catches up to him. Max IS loved, his mortal life was well spent and appreciated, he has contributed in large part to who you and your family are today. I hope that one day somebody can remember each of us even half that fondly.

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Carl and Michele
So very sorry for your loss. :ghug: :ghug: :ghug:
I am so sorry...hugs for you and your family xx
Susan ....So very sorry to read about Max
Your news goes straight to my heart, as we lost our Cassie due to immune mediated
cirrhosis/ liver failure last December at just 8 yrs of age.
We had 18 months with her after the diagnosis/liver biopsy

We will see our sweet sheepies again
They are truly a gift but so hard to let them go...
God never leaves these shaggy ones on this earth long enough.
Hugs~Diane :cry:
I just got done expressing my sympathy to Darcy about Panda and needed to do the same to you. I am so sorry about your loss. We lost our Pooh Bear in June due to a liver tumor that finally caught up with him. I understand how you feel. I hope you don't mind, but I copied what I had wrote to Darcy because what I wrote is meant for you too and I didn't think I could remember everything I wanted to say! Pooh left such an imprint on our lives, that I still take things one day at a time. We adopted an owner surrender 1 year old OES and Angus still gets call "Pooh" especially if he's done something naughty or we need him to be careful! Angus has filled an emptiness in our hearts, but there is still a big hole left by Pooh Bear that no one will ever replace. Once again I am deeply sorry about your loss and hope you don't mind me reposting this.............. :( :( :( :( :( :(

"I was reading the posts today in the car, catching up after a trip to Colorado. I cried reading about Panda and Max being gone. I understand laying on the floor with the dog. I laid in the back of the van for the 40 mile trip with our Pooh Bear and laid on the floor of the vet's office next to him, too. You just want to absorb everything at that moment...their smell, their imagine to keep forever in your mind and keeping a bit of their soul in your heart. The loss is devasting and after 5 months the tears still flow. Everytime I was feeling sad about Pooh the song 'How Can I Help You Say Goodbye by Patty Loveless came on the radio. Then the tears would flow even more, but I heard it so often after we lost Pooh Bear. I was crying quietly behind my sunglasses as we were driving home. (my husband was driving!) Reading about the loss of Panda and Max, I naturally started feeling sad about Pooh and quess what..............yup that song came on the radio! The tears never stop, just like now. I made it through a little over a minute in your tribute. I am very sorry about your loss, my heart goes out to you. Keep your heart and eyes to open for signs from Panda because they will come. I have had a few from Pooh Bear. One I just realized from events this summer. I had read somewhere that butterflies are signs from angels. I haven't seen too many butterflies the past few years, but there was a black and white butterfly that came around everyday while we were sitting outside. I don't remember ever seeing that color around here. It would just circle and dance around where we were. I would just watch it...it didn't seem to be too afraid of us and it was always just one butterfly. Call me crazy, but I think it was Pooh or sent by him."
:(:( sosorry for your loss
I am so sorry for the loss of your beloved Max. I know you were blessed with the 10 special years you had, but those are never enough when we lose someone so dear to us. My heart goes out to you.
susan and family,
For if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps at long and at last. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost -- if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. One place that is best of all.

If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have, he will come to you when you call -- come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they should not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there.

People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing.

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

by Ben Hur Lampman

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Sending our sheepie thoughts and prayers..and hugs :ghug: :ghug: :ghug:
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