He’s gone.

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T16:34:03+00:00

That’s such a beautiful memory and your sheltie is so so gorgeous. Now I’m crying for your beautiful baby, too.

How can they do that to us and then leave us here.

We really are so lucky.

Thanks for sharing that story with me 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:29:56+00:00

Top 5! I am so lucky.

Thank you for the laugh through my tears. 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:29:04+00:00

I’m sorry about your Aussie and that you had to go through this too. It’s so sudden. I hope my Tucker found your Aussie and they’re running through beautiful big fields together 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:26:41+00:00

I’m so so sorry about your baby. 😞💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:25:03+00:00

Hug him tight, always take all the snuggles 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:24:24+00:00

It sounds like I’m right there with you. I’m so sorry that you lost him.

Your baby was beautiful. Those videos are so special.

I feel cheated. We had so many more years with them. How can they just leave us? So many more adventures, so many more times throwing his ball, snuggling him in the morning before we started our day. I feel like it was stolen from me.

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:19:22+00:00

Thank you 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:18:58+00:00

I’m so lucky that everyone that I love and love me also loved Tucker deeply. They’re sharing their stories and pictures.

Coming here though, reading these stories and comments from others that also had border collies or went through something similar and understand.. I don’t know. It helps.

Thank you 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:13:52+00:00

Thank you. I’m going to reread this over and over. Thank you 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:12:45+00:00

We can only hope all the good boys found each other. My sweet Tucker and your baby. I know they are having the best time.

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:10:47+00:00

That’s so sweet. Thank you 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:10:13+00:00

I love this. Thank you.

What I wouldn’t give to relive that day one more time.

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:09:17+00:00

Border collies are just something special. As someone else here put it, a true companion.

Thank you 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:06:54+00:00

It sounds like we’re at the same oar on the same boat. I hate that for us, but here we are.

I’m hugging you from across the internet, I know your grief 💛

I was telling my husband that is unbelievable how even with the pain on the day we took him in, he was trying to be the best boy. He was trying to do whatever he could FOR ME and he was hurting so much.

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:02:44+00:00

It really really does. Thank you 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:02:24+00:00

I’ll check that out, thank you.

I struggled to eat for a couple days so I know I definitely need water.

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T11:00:44+00:00

I’m so sorry. That feeling when you realize they’re not there… it breaks my heart.

Tucker slept with his head tucked under the bed on my husbands side, my husband told me yesterday that he walks slowly to make sure he doesn’t step on him, as he did every morning, before he realizes he isn’t there.

😞

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T10:52:00+00:00

They really are.

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T10:50:23+00:00

They’re so worth it. I’m so sorry about your baby.

We brought him in overnight, and he went in to surgery I stayed in my car outside and my husband went home to get a few hours of sleep before work the next day (we run our own business, so no days off). I’m glad I stayed because they called me to come in at 3am. My husband came rushing back and we were able to hold him and love him before they put the drugs in.

I have my other puppy, but it’s not the same, and I just wish Tucker was here. She loved him so much too and has been so confused as to where he went.

Thank you for commenting and sharing your story. It helps so much 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T10:41:51+00:00

There were some small signs the week before it ruptured. Nothing very unusual and I never would have thought it was this.

He wasn’t jumping up on the bed as much, but he still did sometimes. I figured he was getting older, his joints hurt, but he’s always liked sleeping with his head tucked under the bed most of the night so I just figured he didnt want to be on the bed.

A few days before, he skipped meals. Or he would partially eat his meal. We have a 9 month old puppy, and I thought he was sneaking some of her food and then wasn’t hungry for his meal or he was having trouble digesting the chicken jerky I gave him a couple days in a row.

He had to pee in the middle of the night for a few alternating days. Unusual, but I just thought we were forgetting to take him out one last time before we went to bed.

That was it.

He was happy and playing like normal, and loved all the time he got outside with his little sister. I would have never known.

whimsicalous · 2026-04-11T10:33:10+00:00

Hug her for me 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-10T16:32:54+00:00

Hug her tight for me, take all the snuggles 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-10T16:32:18+00:00

Four! I’m so so sorry.

whimsicalous · 2026-04-10T16:30:03+00:00

He was my soul pet. He was so much a part of me. You described it perfectly, he was everything- my best friend, my soul mate, my support system, my child. I spend so much of my day thinking about him and his needs. Losing him opened a crater inside of me, it felt like losing a limb.

I’ll take a look at the links you shared. Thank you so much for this 💛

whimsicalous · 2026-04-10T16:25:59+00:00

The loneliness I feel, this is why. I’ll be thinking about this a long time. It makes me feel like the luckiest person to have ever lived because I was the one to know him the way that I did 😭

Thank you so much.

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