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TastyReuben, I copied this from the other thread "kitchen gadget drawer". How are you and MrsT doing since Kate passed away? I know it takes time when our furry friends move on. I hope the good memories help you both through.

TastyReuben said:
No, I can't say that I do. Everything I have in my cutlery/utensils drawers, I use. If I see something that I haven't used in a while, I'll think about when I last used it, when I might next use it, and if I can't come up with something, out it goes.

For example, I had an old steak knife that is the last of a set; wooden handle, which I don't like. I'd kept it because it was excellent for cutting open the packs of dog food we used to buy.

The dog moved on to her greater reward at the start of the year, and just yesterday, I noticed that knife, realized it was not going to be used for anything else, so goodbye to you, Steaky McKnife!

Now, I do have a couple of things that get rarely used, but I do use them - since I know they'll get used at some point, and I know what for, they get to hang around.
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mjd said:
TastyReuben, I copied this from the other thread "kitchen gadget drawer". How are you and MrsT doing since Kate passed away? I know it takes time when our furry friends move on. I hope the good memories help you both through.
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We're doing fine, thanks.

MrsT and I are completely different in that respect. I approach the whole thing with a look-on-the-bright-side attitude. I'm like that with most things.

For example, Kate in her old age became a very sloppy eater. She kept the floor an absolute mess with fallout from soft and hard food and treats. She also spilled water everywhere.

Apart from having to clean the floor three or four times a day, I was constantly walking across the room and my bare foot would catch some hard sharp piece of a dog biscuit, and it was like walking on a nail. Or I'd have just put my socks on, then I'd go into the kitchen and step in a puddle of water she spilled that I didn't know about. I hate that.

So, to me, that's a positive, and it's not being gleeful or cruel to appreciate the fact that I'm not spending a third of my day picking up slop from the dog. It's a way of taking an unpleasant situation and looking for the good side.

I vacuumed the other day and haven't had to since, and I commented that it was nice to vacuum once every four days instead of four times every day, and that got me some pretty biting remarks from my wife, so she's still struggling.

I've mentioned before that she's an extremely negative person - she actively looks for the downside of anything, and this is no different. She's finding things to be upset about, things that would never occur to me to connect back to the dog, like eating a sandwich and crying because "Kate would have loved to have a bite of this" - we rarely ever gave Kate people food, and certainly not a bite of a sandwich, so there shouldn't be a reason to be triggered by a that.

She'll get there eventually, but it's just taking her longer. Everybody's different.
 
TastyReuben said:
We're doing fine, thanks.

MrsT and I are completely different in that respect. I approach the whole thing with a look-on-the-bright-side attitude. I'm like that with most things.

For example, Kate in her old age became a very sloppy eater. She kept the floor an absolute mess with fallout from soft and hard food and treats. She also spilled water everywhere.

Apart from having to clean the floor three or four times a day, I was constantly walking across the room and my bare foot would catch some hard sharp piece of a dog biscuit, and it was like walking on a nail. Or I'd have just put my socks on, then I'd go into the kitchen and step in a puddle of water she spilled that I didn't know about. I hate that.

So, to me, that's a positive, and it's not being gleeful or cruel to appreciate the fact that I'm not spending a third of my day picking up slop from the dog. It's a way of taking an unpleasant situation and looking for the good side.

I vacuumed the other day and haven't had to since, and I commented that it was nice to vacuum once every four days instead of four times every day, and that got me some pretty biting remarks from my wife, so she's still struggling.

I've mentioned before that she's an extremely negative person - she actively looks for the downside of anything, and this is no different. She's finding things to be upset about, things that would never occur to me to connect back to the dog, like eating a sandwich and crying because "Kate would have loved to have a bite of this" - we rarely ever gave Kate people food, and certainly not a bite of a sandwich, so there shouldn't be a reason to be triggered by a that.

She'll get there eventually, but it's just taking her longer. Everybody's different.
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Sorry for not noticing your sad news in the "Show us your pet" thread almost a month ago(!). My condolences for the loss of a long time companion, TR.
 
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TastyReuben said:
We're doing fine, thanks.

MrsT and I are completely different in that respect. I approach the whole thing with a look-on-the-bright-side attitude. I'm like that with most things.

For example, Kate in her old age became a very sloppy eater. She kept the floor an absolute mess with fallout from soft and hard food and treats. She also spilled water everywhere.

Apart from having to clean the floor three or four times a day, I was constantly walking across the room and my bare foot would catch some hard sharp piece of a dog biscuit, and it was like walking on a nail. Or I'd have just put my socks on, then I'd go into the kitchen and step in a puddle of water she spilled that I didn't know about. I hate that.

So, to me, that's a positive, and it's not being gleeful or cruel to appreciate the fact that I'm not spending a third of my day picking up slop from the dog. It's a way of taking an unpleasant situation and looking for the good side.

I vacuumed the other day and haven't had to since, and I commented that it was nice to vacuum once every four days instead of four times every day, and that got me some pretty biting remarks from my wife, so she's still struggling.

I've mentioned before that she's an extremely negative person - she actively looks for the downside of anything, and this is no different. She's finding things to be upset about, things that would never occur to me to connect back to the dog, like eating a sandwich and crying because "Kate would have loved to have a bite of this" - we rarely ever gave Kate people food, and certainly not a bite of a sandwich, so there shouldn't be a reason to be triggered by a that.

She'll get there eventually, but it's just taking her longer. Everybody's different.
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Not to mention that Kate was probably not as happy as she used to be. That was the thing with Casey at age 17 -- she was a very unhappy dog, which was SO unlike the way she was most of her life.

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caseydog said:
Not to mention that Kate was probably not as happy as she used to be. That was the thing with Casey at age 17 -- she was a very unhappy dog, which was SO unlike the way she was most of her life.

CD
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Yes, absolutely true.

Kate was a weird dog, especially for a setter, in that she was similar to a cat; standoffish and not very affectionate.

But that didn't mean she wasn't fun or funny; she was, but she was more the type who seemed to find that she was all the company she needed. She could spend the better part of a day, every day, going over our small two acres - it was a whole world to her.

The last year or so of her life, though, outside was just a place to pee and poop - she didn't seem to have any joy being outside and did get quite anxious being out by herself. The last six months, one of us (99% of the time it was me) had to go out with her, because otherwise, she was just too anxious to do her business.
 
TastyReuben said:
Yes, absolutely true.

Kate was a weird dog, especially for a setter, in that she was similar to a cat; standoffish and not very affectionate.

But that didn't mean she wasn't fun or funny; she was, but she was more the type who seemed to find that she was all the company she needed. She could spend the better part of a day, every day, going over our small two acres - it was a whole world to her.

The last year or so of her life, though, outside was just a place to pee and poop - she didn't seem to have any joy being outside and did get quite anxious being out by herself. The last six months, one of us (99% of the time it was me) had to go out with her, because otherwise, she was just too anxious to do her business.
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I her last year, Casey was afraid of a lot of things, especially loud noises. What made it worse that she was deaf in just one ear, so she couldn't tell where the noises were coming from.

CD
 
TastyReuben said:
We're doing fine, thanks.

MrsT and I are completely different in that respect. I approach the whole thing with a look-on-the-bright-side attitude. I'm like that with most things.

For example, Kate in her old age became a very sloppy eater. She kept the floor an absolute mess with fallout from soft and hard food and treats. She also spilled water everywhere.

Apart from having to clean the floor three or four times a day, I was constantly walking across the room and my bare foot would catch some hard sharp piece of a dog biscuit, and it was like walking on a nail. Or I'd have just put my socks on, then I'd go into the kitchen and step in a puddle of water she spilled that I didn't know about. I hate that.

So, to me, that's a positive, and it's not being gleeful or cruel to appreciate the fact that I'm not spending a third of my day picking up slop from the dog. It's a way of taking an unpleasant situation and looking for the good side.

I vacuumed the other day and haven't had to since, and I commented that it was nice to vacuum once every four days instead of four times every day, and that got me some pretty biting remarks from my wife, so she's still struggling.

I've mentioned before that she's an extremely negative person - she actively looks for the downside of anything, and this is no different. She's finding things to be upset about, things that would never occur to me to connect back to the dog, like eating a sandwich and crying because "Kate would have loved to have a bite of this" - we rarely ever gave Kate people food, and certainly not a bite of a sandwich, so there shouldn't be a reason to be triggered by a that.

She'll get there eventually, but it's just taking her longer. Everybody's different.
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Yes, we are all different and experience life in our own way. This is the primary reason that I try to be kind to everyone. You just never know what someone else is going through. I'm glad MrsT has you by her side.
 
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