Ever heard of a dog grieving itself to death?

[djhogdogger]

 I was wondering if  anyone has had this happen. My husbands bassett hound Max who was 12 this year passed away from natural causes about a month ago. Our female Lulu who has been with Max since she was a pup just passed away last week. She had been moping around ever since Max died and I was wondering is it coincidence or if she grieved herself to death. After Max died, we let her out of the kennel to hang out with the yard dogs but i guess it wasnt enough. She seemed to be in good health.

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sounds like where the red fern grows

[djhogdogger]

 It is really wierd. Both of them were just pets and were spoiled and well taken care of. I cant explain it.

[Hog Dog Mike]

I believe that some of them do.

This happened to me a couple of years ago and it is spooky. I had a red cur female that I hunted 12 seasons before I lost her to cancer. She had been operated on twice before for it but this time it was too far gone. I burried her in my dog graveyard.

Within a week a red cur dog came up to the house and I fed it. It hung around for a few days. The wierd part was that it slept on Reba's grave.  I went over to it one time and looked it right in the eyes and I swear to God they looked just like Reba's.

Then it dissappeared just as quick as it come up and I never seen it again. I will always think it was ole Reba coming back one more time to tell me everything was going to be OK.

[leonidas]

I've heard of it and seen it with my grandpa's dog's back in the day..Once one died. The other just didn't want to do anything and died 3 weeks later...

I was wondering if  anyone has had this happen. My husbands bassett hound Max who was 12 this year passed away from natural causes about a month ago. Our female Lulu who has been with Max since she was a pup just passed away last week. She had been moping around ever since Max died and I was wondering is it coincidence or if she grieved herself to death. After Max died, we let her out of the kennel to hang out with the yard dogs but i guess it wasnt enough. She seemed to be in good health.

[Nickjones]

i have never had one die from it. I had a cur gyp that i ran my red dog with since he was a pup and when ol butch died my red dog moped around and would not hunt for 6 or 7 months. he has finally started hunting again.

[dub]

Yes I have seen it. Had two healthy dogs and one got hit by a car. The other dog just moped around and would go lay where the other died next to the road. It was very sad to see. Nothing I could do to make him happy. Even locked him in the house and tried to play. They were maybe about six years old and healthy. It taught me about how strong a dogs loyalty is.

[Case]

sounds like where the red fern grows

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Thats exactly what I was thinking when I was reading the post. Sitting with a room full of first graders, and there wasnt a dry eye in the school room.
Sorry for your loss!

[Reuben]

This is not exactly the same.

I had a mtn cur that was cut bad enough that I took him to the vet. The dog had lost some blood so I let him drink all the water he wanted. The vet said it wouldn't be a problem and the dog would be fine.

The dog got surgury and spent the night at the vet and I was supposed to pick him up the next day.

That night the rest of my dogs started howling very mournfully around 1 am. I woke my wife up and asked her to listen to the dogs. I told her that RedMan died at the vets office because the dogs are howling mournfully. The next morning I called the vet and he said RedMan drowned after surgury from water coming up backwards from his stomach into his lungs.

[bob]

my uncle gave me a german sheperd police dog when I was 18 , he said I had to take this cat which was the dogs buddy also , the cat seemed to be just fine , really calm ect. , we had a hour drive home in a single cab truck , about half way the cat blew up , and started tearing us up going down the road , I pulled over and opened the door to get away from the cat and he took off and could not catch him , anyway the dog never ate after that day , he just moped around and would not eat and lost a lot of weight and then passed , I couldnt believe that a dog and a cat would have such a bond and hated to tell my uncle the story

[MIGUEL 76442]

 I have two females an a male dog. Everytime they come in heat i take them to another place and my male will howls every night and won't hardly eat until they come back. They have been rised together so I guess they do have feelings for each other.

[matt_aggie04]

Last summer when my crow dog died his momma would go over to the fence closest to where he was burried under an oak and just lay there when I let her out in the evenings. He was three years and she acted as though she was looking for her puppy, it was hard to watch.

[DangerZone]

I had a pair of rott's that I breed for pets. The male was about three years older than the female   He died when she was seven and she ran off three times after he died I found her each time I think she was trying to get to our old home place about 30 miles away. The last time wasabout a year after he died she ran her self down so bad we couldn't save her. It was hard to see her go down.

[DangerZone]

I know this may sound crazy but I had the male cremated and I have him in a cedar box. I sometime think if I would have buried him she would have not been running off looking for him

[djhogdogger]

 After reading everyones stories, some of them really gives me chills.

[SCHitemHard]

we had a old collie that was my great grandfathers. this dog ment the world to him we even convinced the nursing home to let him visit and help him feel better. when my great pa died, we took the dog with us to the graveyard and every few months we would go change the flowers and the dog knew where he was buried and he would just whine and look at the ground. kinda freaky, we had the dog cremated and spread the ashes on his grave.

[zachW]

This is not the same but I buried my dog muzzy and then without thinking chained my pit close to where she is buried my girl friend told me he would dig her up and eat her, but he never would he would lay I'n the area and go else where to dig  I always thought that was kinda cool

[goose]

i had two gyps come in heat at the same time one year they were mother daughter...well they both got bred one by my yarddog bulldog and the other by the milkman i guess...well the daughter only had three pups and two of them died so i was letting her raise it and my older gyp who i ddnt know got bred and by what i still have no clue he was black all i can say....long story short i disposed of the pups and my old bell dog sat there where she had giving birth for two days after i got rid of the pups and wouldnt eat move anything just sitting there grieving and this was a gyp i raised from a pup a i copuld read her body languauge like a book so i decided to take daisys (who is bells daughter and were chained by each other) lone pup and put it on bell when it was around 3 wks old she still had plenty of milk so i was like what the heck lets try it bell took right over like it was hers and up until the day ole bell died that pup always ran up to her as if it were its mom and bell never missed a lick after that she was as happy as pig in slop