I just found this site today and thought I would post a goodbye to a special friend we lost yesterday. We currently have 3 lab mixed dogs that are 5,6, and 7 years old. Someone we knew was moving to a new home and could not take Bosco (bulldog/boxer mix) with them. They was going to take him to the pound until we decided to take him home and make him a part of our family. He was 8 years old and was a pure outside dog. We just built a new home and had a room built in the basement with a door to the outside which we have all fenced in. We brought him home and was in the process of crate training him. He was doing great and loved all of the attention we gave him. He did not have any of his shots and we did not want to start bringing him around our dogs until he recieved his shots and the vet gave us an ok. We would get up in the morning and take him outside and put him a a dog lead while we got ready for work. We had to move his stuff to our back deck for a few days and we knew that this was not a great place to put him. We made sure his lead was not long enough for him to get around the stairs or the drop off. On 11-5-05 we took him outside like we usually do and got ready for work. When we was finished we went to get him and found him hanging off of the deck. Our hearts have shattered into a million pieces as we tried to do everything we could to save him but it was to late. We treat all of our dogs as children since we do not have any. We consider our pups as children and try to make sure they are loved and try to keep them safe. We feel like horrible parents as we did not do enough to keep him safe. We only had him for 4 weeks before this happened, but we fell in love with him the day we brought him home. We have watched family members die and the lose of pets to old age, but we have never had to deal with a terrible tragedy as this. While we had him we gave him a little extra attention since he was porbably never shown the love that a pet should get, but we do not know how to move on from this. When he was here you could see how happy he was and how much he loved the attention we gave him. Would just like to end this and say Thanks Bosco for the wonderful time we spent together and hope you will forgive us.