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[alway]

I have to drive 8 hours back to Ohio tonight. 90% of the route is currently under Winter Storm Warning. >_<

[Tellemurius]

Facebook has normal adverts. My sexuality is gay on that, so it shows gay-themed adverts. Stuff which I find slightly... Unsettling.

i didn't even know facebook does that, though i wouldn't know since i haven't been on for 8 monthes

[Cthulhu]

Yeah, it themes the ads based on what you put on your profile.  I recently got engaged to chlorine though, because a friend told me to marry it if I loved it so much, so I shouldn't be seeing many dating ads.

EDIT:  I missed the monthly "i'm so sad give advice but only if its the advice i want to hear ELLIPSES" thread.  :/

[Duke 2.0]

 My dog was hit by a car an hour ago.

 30 minutes ago the vet told us that his lungs collapsed and that if we did the treatment he would have health problems for the rest of his life. So we had him put down

[Something Evil]

Nasty.

I feel your pain.
Something like this happened to a cat of mine some years ago. Poor thing didn't get off with just collapsed lungs. She had her spine broken and several organs torn, bleeding inside.
She died in my mom's lap after the doctor told us there was nothing anyone could do anymore.

But the important thing is to keep hold of the happy memories.

[Duke 2.0]

 It was a very clean death, which I'm thankful for. Although I'm unsure of how to hold onto the happy memories without getting depressed about it. And trying my best to shove away thoughts of "If I did this he would still be alive now."

 I'm handling this about as well as I thought I would when thinking over what I would do if this happened. But I'm really getting crushed thinking about how to break this to my siblings and how it'll effect them.

[Tellemurius]

*sigh*
harsh reality, i don't know how many times i cringed when my dog runs in front of cars.

[Something Evil]

@ Duke.

The good memories will always be mixed with the sadness of your dog's death, but the important thing is to always have the good memories come whenever the sad ones resurface. And the guilt won't really go away. It'll ebb, but never really leave.

As for your siblings, I don't really know. You should know best whether honesty will be the best policy, or will the dog have "run away". The problem is that these lies eventually get found out and they'll feel betrayed.

[Duke 2.0]

 We're all in our upper-teens, so running away isn't an option. It's more that knowing my sisters are suffering from this, you know?

 Rest in peace, buddy
 

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[Cthulhu]

That sucks man :s  I had the same thing happen a few years ago, and it was the guilt that really hurt.  The one day I'm somewhere else, she runs outside and my dad is the only one home.  She got hit while he was putting his shoes on.  I was the only one she'd consistently come back to when she ran outside.

[SalmonGod]

As long as we're on the subject of dying pets. 

Spoiler: Warning:  Not pleasant (click to show/hide)

I made good friends with a local stray kitten after moving into a house that was constantly surrounded by them when I was 8.  This led to the most gruesome thing I've ever personally witnessed.

After knowing this cat for several months, she disappeared for a while.  I don't really remember how long.  Until one day I was outside and spotted her stumbling up our long gravel driveway.  Something didn't look right about the way she was moving.  As I got closer, I noticed she was covered in something that looked like large grains of rice.  This stuff was thickly layered into her fur all over her body.  After inspecting her for a little while completely confused, I found a large, open wound in her neck.  It was seriously just a big open hole, probably around an inch in diameter, that I didn't notice at first because there was a large flap of matted fur over it.  It was completely hollow inside, and crawling with maggots.  I was horrified, and still can't understand how that poor creature was still alive.  The only thing I could think of to do was give her a bath.  I can't imagine the torture I must have put that cat through trying to clean her up, and she was too weak to protest.  The water was full of eggs and maggots.  After a couple hours, my dad got home and promptly took her away and shot her.

Another one.  I'm pretty sure one of our dogs was murdered when living in that same place.  It was like 5 or 6 years after the above event.  Our dog was on a line outside, and she disappeared.  The line was not damaged at all.  Someone had let her off it.  I found her dead on the side of the road later, a couple blocks away.  We couldn't find anything wrong with her.  There was no indication of any kind of injury or struggle on her.  All we found was a small, square patch of missing fur that looked like it had been shaved... with a little red dot in the center.  I'm pretty sure someone injected her with something.  I can't say I'm surprised.  That place was a fucking nightmare.  Animal cruelty was a regular pastime among local kids, and my family was not well liked there.  Still, the method was incredibly bizarre.

[Lord Shonus]

I've got a cat that's too mean to die and a dog that's to stupid to. The cat has nearly no teeth, is half senile, and the mice keep stealing her food when she falls asleep while eating. The dog just waits until someone goes to step over her to stand up.

[iceball3]

You know what? Disregard. I feel stupid.

[sonerohi]

A couple of, now former, friends did some really retarded and petty stuff. One of them had been crushing on my new girlfriend, for quite a while, and I didn't know when I asked her out. He got all pissy and punched a hole in the drywall, so I just plain beat the hell out of him and then called his parents and told them the situation while he cleaned himself up. A different friend went and got trashed before coming to one of my parties, and I had to turn him away and later call the proprietor to remove him, because it was a clean party. My core group of friends has been shattered, and it will take awhile to rebuild and get rid of this ash taste.

The pot has been sweetened ladies and gentleman. Two of my five remaining friends have been dating for about a year now. Just yesterday, they broke up and for late last night into early today, they were crusading around and trying to get people to take sides. Then we find out she's pregnant, and now everything is fucking peachy. Haha, just kidding this is shitty as.. god I don't even know. I feel too tired, and sad and angry. I'm just burnt out and I want to be alone so I can bottle up my emotions, but I'm the one that needs to keep the cohesion and work shit out.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Sonerohi, I think it might be best if you go and be alone like you want to. If they're going to make factions and tear each other apart, you'll probably only manage to waste your time in trying to mediate.