Sad day for the kids

So yesterday Devin came home from work and found one of our dogs, Dexter, dead. The kids took it really hard. They made a little "tombstone" and helped Devin bury him. It was really sad. We have NO idea what happened to him either; he was on our neighbors property with no wounds or anything. He was only about 7-9 years old; we got him about 5 years ago. These are pictures of him (the B&W dog) with Mason, Emberlyn and our other dog Buddy. Dexters foot got hurt one day and Mason took it upon himself to bandage it up! cute kid!

It made me think about our other deceased pets and thought I would jot this down for my kids sake. Bruce was our 1st dog, a rottie. We got him when we were building the house so he would protect our property and that he did. He died several years ago; pretty much cuz he was dumb. (it's actually kind of funny now) He had some stupid obsession with porcupines. Now; you would think that after being smacked in the face several times by one and having to be drugged and have them pulled out one by one would be enough to want to leave them alone. Not Bruce. The dumb dog did it 3 more times!!!! Every time Devin & our neighbors, would tie him to a board, drug him (I don't even remember w/what) and sit with tweezers and pulled every single one out, which took hours cuz there were a TON! The last time he did it we couldn't save him so he had to be put down. Poor Bruce!

Then 2 years ago our cat Dash (you can tell when we got the animals--Dexter was named b/c of my boys obsession w/Dexters Laboratory & Dash was named from their love of "The Incredibles") got really sick out of no where and died. He put up a good fight for about a week and we did everything we could to help him, but he didn't pull through. I think that one was actually the hardest cuz we only had him for about a year and he was the first cat we ever had, and the kids just LOVED him!! So there is our pet stories. Now we have to find a new dog before our golden retriever Buddy dies so he can show him how things go around here. We have been lucky to have really great dogs that make us feel very safe and protected. We'll miss you Dexter!!