Jim:
I hear you. We just put down our 15 y.o black lab, Smokey, yesterday, and range of emotions: the grief, the sadness, the emptiness, the hurting is HUGE. When I drove away from the Vet's office yesterday, knowing they would most probably be putting my boy down, I screamed in hysterics, I'm not ashamed to say. They now await us in Paradise. The emptiness and longing I'm feeling at this point is incredible. I'll never forget, stop loving and missing my boy, Smokey, and I pray you'll start to feel better soon.
