Come on, boy.
Please, oh please come home.
Jesus. You guys have had WAY too much bad luck. It’s time for a turn around.
RILEY! Go home boy! Please?
Still no sign of him today. I am going to scour the woods again when I get home from work. Had thunderstorms today, too. I bet he was scared.
I can only hope that someone nice has taken him in.
Unfortunately, he needs his meds soon, or he may have more seizures.
Did you put a lost notice on Craigslist? I’m pulling for him.
StG
Pulling for Riley too. I hope he remembers where his home is SOON.
Searched the woods again. No sign of the dog. I have made every possible (except maybe Craigslist) contact to put out the word for a lost, beautiful, epileptic dog.
I am not going to do any more. We are already in family discussions for a shelter dog replacement should Riley not come home.
Part of me thinks it’s better this way…him perishing on the run, sniffing, eating and drinking whatever he can.
The other part of me is so sad that he’s just out there, lost.
I’d have more faith in his returning home on his own if he weren’t medically fucked up.
I can’t keep beating myself up over this. He comes home, or he doesn’t. Or someone takes him in and we get him back, or we don’t.
For now, it’s goodbye Riley yet again. How this has taken a turn…craziness.
I’m numb to it, now.
I’m so sorry. I’ve been refreshing MPSIMS all day from here on the edge of my chair, looking for updates. It’s so frustrating. This has been a crazy saga.
Don’t beat yourself up. Accidents happen even to the best of us. You have been doing the best you can.
It’s an appropriate choice, I think, at this point, to just leave it to fate. He may turn up, or not, or someone may find him, or not. This pessimist sees the wisdom sometimes of assuming the worst. That way, if the worst happens, you were prepared. If things turn out for the better, it’s a pleasant surprise.
Let him go, if it brings you some peace, and find another dog to love, in Riley’s honor.
And who knows? Leave some room for him in a corner of your heart. I was just reading about a bull terrier-looking dog that turned up 1800 miles from home, five months after she went missing. So Riley II may have a new friend someday.
I don’t usually do this, but I feel I must:
{{{{{FoieGras}}}}}
and, heck,
{{{{{Riley, wherever he may be}}}}}
Thank you and thanks to everyone that’s been following along. It sure has been the most rollercoaster situation I’ve* ever* had with a pet.
It’s just nuts that Riley is a runaway on the eve of his emergence from seizure and drug-induced insanity. And the kicker is that he didn’t run away from us intentionally, just…because.
Dammit.
Thanks again everyone. If we don’t get him back soon, I suppose I’ll ask that the thread be closed when we get a new dog. Which I don’t want. But will probably do anyway.
I can relate. Spent the most exhausting and maddening 12 hours of my life looking for my boy Cosmo in the cold Chicago January night… Best of luck.
I keep coming back…hoping…
Nellt K. Beagle came home after 5 months. Dogs are better at surviving on their own than we think.
K9Lover, while you have a right to your opinion and it is held by a few other members here, I can see you are new here, and probably unaware of the board dynamics. Criticism of the kind you posted is more appropriately expressed in the BBQ Pit, where that kind of bluntness is permitted and encouraged. In fact, there is a thread in the Pit where most of the criticism of FGIE has gone, so as not to derail this thread.
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I am giving you this information at risk of being accused of “junior modding.” Again, I am not questioning your right to express your opinion, or even to be blunt about it. It’s just that the BBQ Pit may be a more appropriate forum for this type of bluntness.
I moved the post cochrane referred to to the Pit thread; follow the link in cochrane’s post to that thread if you wish to read it, or if you wish to take FoieGras to task for whatever he did or didn’t do. This is not the appropriate thread for anger or vitriol.
K9Lover, I am a moderator, and I am speaking as a moderator when I tell you that your tone is not appropriate for this forum. I suggest that you do a bit of reading, both of forum descriptions and of posts, to get a sense of what does and doesn’t fly around here.
You are, of course, welcome to your opinions, and you are welcome to express them, but please do so in the appropriate forums.
FGIE, any updates on Riley? Has he come back, or turned up at a shelter?