Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 1d In the end he had Dignity. Very sad this evening as I had big plans for Bear. Very proud of the team as always.
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Bear can now be pain free with all the doggies that have gone before, running and playing. I’m happy you and your team showed him lots of love and care. ❤️
My heart is broken 💔
To be loved and pain free right at the end is all we can hope for. You gave Bear the best send off.
Thank you for honoring his life. It was far too short.🙏❤️🌈🐾
We don't deserve dogs... but I'm glad they chose us. All lives owe a death. The best we can hope for is a little love & not to go alone and unremembered or unseen. Given dignity is one lesson, but given compassion... THAT in everything.
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Poor Bear & we're all sad for him, you & the team. You did everything possible to help & this feels the same as when little Valentina passed. Upsetting 😢💔
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Why would you put this poor dog down? You keep posting videos where you eventually end up putting dogs down. Why not fight until the very end until they are cured? Animals have a survival instinct. They’re not like human beings where we decide to simply enter palliative care after suffering a while.
He had love & safety & kindness too Niall, and thats all thanks to you guys. Was really rooting for Big Bear, he had a few more stories to share.
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Death is a natural part of life. Suffering, however, is avoidable through virtuous words and deeds. You did all you could do. You helped him suffer less and slip out of his mortal frame in peace.
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RIP Bear. 😢
Ah, so sorry for you all 💔
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Thank you…
Poor Bear, thank you for giving him a peaceful ending.
Thank you all so much for putting your hearts and souls into giving unconditional love to Bear when he needed it most. You gave him a peaceful, caring, pain free six days. It must have felt like heaven to him and allowed him to feel what true love is. Rest in Peace Bear. 💔
He knew kindness & respect at the end. His eyes showed that he knew he was safe, at last. He likely experienced what you’ve seen before, when he finally relaxed in his clean, soft bed, the entirety of his ailments became apparent & he just couldn’t overcome the stress of it all. You gave him peace.❤️
I’m so sorry Niall and HDC for the loss of Bear💔 Thank you for giving him pure love, care and dignity during his last moments. You all are the good in this world. Thank you for helping him and letting him know he mattered in this world❤️
Because of you and your team, he knew love before he left this earth.
Thank you for giving him his dignity.
Thank you for loving him. 💔
Sending you all love, deepest condolences and so much gratitude for giving Bear dignity, excellent care and love. Bear felt and knew your love as he passed on and that in itself is a gift beyond words. Thank you! ❤️🙏🏽❤️
I'm so sorry, Niall. 💔😔
Good boy, Bear… good boy 😔❤️
I'm so sad and so sorry, Niall. I hoped he would recover, too. You gave this big, beautiful love when it mattered the most.
Gutted for you and the team. He died with friends, what more would a dog want in their final hours.
I’m so sorry, but at least he spent his final days cleaned up and lying on a cushioned bed. So many dogs never get to have that.💙
This never gets easy 😪💔 🐕 love you Bear..
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At least Bear was loved. Two things that are important, being loved when born & be loved when you die. RIP Bear 🐕🦺🐾🐻💔
Thank you for giving him what he should have gotten all of his life. Love and dignity.
Very sad. I too had a dog I would sit for pass away 2 days ago. Her name was Sushi. This has hit me hard, harder than I thought. RIP Bear, you had dignity in the end and got experience real LOVE. ♥️💙💔 #dogsofbluesky
Absolutely heartbreaking 💔. But he knew kindness, compassion, and love in his last days. I am so sorry for your loss. I am glad he had you and your team in those final days.💜💜💜
I’m so sorry he’s left us, but you gave him a beautiful ending. He had love and nurturing which he didn’t have in earlier days. Thank you for your beautiful service.
Good Journey Bear. May you live on, free of pain and free of the memories of the humans who treated you so badly and filled with the memories of the humans who loved you so much.
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Godspeed, Bear.🙏❤️
You are absolutely a wonderful person for the services you perform. I truly have some great respect for you and your organization.
So sorry 🫂🩵
Bear left the world blanketed by love. Hearing kind words, feeling soft touches and wet warm tears of love. Thank you to the entire team that showed this creature the love he deserved
He was beautiful, good boy. And his life was good at the end. He was loved by all of you at Happy Doggo and by all of us. And he will be remembered.
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Ahh Niall, you made sure poor Bear didn’t die alone and in pain, it’s heart breaking, but you and the team did your upmost for him and I’m certain he felt that love! Keep up the amazing work and Godspeed to Bear 💔
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Heartbreaking.
Really got me this one. Thank you for all you do.
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So sad but at last he had comfort and love & was painfree in his last days. These dogs have such an impact on us😢
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I’m so sorry for the loss of Bear. He knew love at the very end. What a special gift 🌈
You did your best, and Bear had comfort in his final days ❤️🌈
Omg this breaks my heart.
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Heartbreaking - but you did the best you could. Thank you.
With tears running down my face I send you all the love in my heart. I’m so glad he didn’t die alone in severe pain on the streets but so very sad he was just a little too worn out to stay among us here. I’m so so sorry.
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I am always touched by the outpouring of love. Every dog there knows what it feels like to be loved and cared for.
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Dear Bear, your life made a difference. In the end, unfortunately, you didn’t have the strength to carry on. There are so many who will fondly remember you & your gentle eyes. May you arrive on the other side in peace & without pain; we’re so glad we got to know you. Farewell, dear little Bear 💔🐻 🌈
It made me cry! People who are kind to animals are good people!
He knew love. That's the important thing. ❤️ Thank you to you and all your staff.
Aw, sweet Bear. Thanks for giving him the love at the end that he should have had his whole life. ❤️
Aw, not Bear 😓
So loved, so cared for at the end. So missed by all the human lives he touched. Fareweil beautiful Bear 🌈❤️🩹
Dignity indeed. Beautiful boy. I bet it was the best six days of his life. RIP Bear.
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Poor Bear. I was rooting for another miracle. So sad to see these dogs suffer so much. You do amazing work Niall. Thank you.
dignity, love, attention, a name ❤️ 🐻 thank you (and the team) so very much ✨
Thanks to you and your team for the care and love you gave him.
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After so much pain and loneliness, Bear got to feel love and safety and relief from pain. His poor body had been through so much, but he slipped away softly. Rest in peace big fella
Blessed be, Mr Bear. May the mother goddess welcome you home. ❤️
This one got me more than usual 😭 thank you Niall and team for easing Bears suffering in the short time you had with him x
You’re making me want to move overseas and just take care of dogs for the rest of my life.
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Thank you for your kindness 😢
Thank you for all you and your team do. I was so rooting for Bear. Bless you all that he did have a few days of love and was not hurting anymore. So sorry. 🙏😢❤️
I’m so sorry for the loss of Bear. Thank you for loving him. 💔🙏
😢 As much as we wish you could save them all, we know that is not possible or realistic, but you do so much for all of them.
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Thank you Niall and team for six days all Bear knew and felt was the love he’d been missing out on. I’m glad he had that, this breaks but thanks for letting know.
My heart breaks that you couldn’t know love longer sweet Bear, but you fought so hard, it’s OK that you were tired. You didn’t give up, you won the fight. May peace and love ever be your journey, we will look for you on the other side, I promise. It’s only until later.🐾♥️🐾
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I’m sorry. Niall, I’m so sorry. 😢😪
Oh Bear😭. I'm sure he knew he was loved so could slip quietly away.
Thank you for taking care of Bear. Thank you for taking care of all of them. As my grandma would say- there will be stars in your crown✨
I can't watch 🙈😭 I guess it's how some places deal with their dead but whether it's humans or animals, I just can't... Goodbye beautiful Bear, definitely one of the best boys there was 🙏
Crying for poor Bear. Thank you for looking after him to the end.
Absolutely heartbreaking…at least he had the touch of love in the end of his life …I am so grateful for Niall & team for sharing this moment of their extraordinary work with these forgotten souls 👁️❤️🎼
Oh Bear, I am so sad to hear this news but take comfort that you knew real love and compassion in your final days 💔 Run free precious boy 🌈🐶😢
Stomach punch that. You can all be proud of yourselves.
Good voyage Bear.
A peaceful passing surrounded by love is a great blessing. His spirits are lifted where his body could not go.
I’m so sorry. This must be so hard for you.
Sweet gentle Bear. You were the best boy. Run free now, no pain. You were loved. 🌈🐾💔
awww crap...
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Bless you, Niall. He knew love and care in the end and that matters. 💙
Oh no! I am so, so sorry! I was so hopeful for him! Thank you for giving him 6 days of affection and relative comfort, so he could experience it before he died. I don't know if you are familiar with the story of Rainbow Bridge, but it is worth reading--poignant, beautiful, and comforting.
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Yeah but he got a little love and a little comfort and dignity before he passed, and that's why I'm welling up watching this video. Bless him.
Thanks for helping him. 💙😥🌈
Sending you all so much love ❤️ yes Bear had dignity thanks to you all at HD, thank you for loving him on our behalf 💔
It means everything. You ended the suffering, and showed love and compassion. Showing kindness and love, it might be the most important thing we can do. I'm sorry you lost your friend.
slobberdogs.bsky.so We all confront this heavy emotional grief with you Niall, a ripping rawness slips into our hearts, a deep sigh of loneliness we must carry. Bear slipped away shrouded within all that is good with Happy Doggo, he was at a comforting peace, aware that he was loved.
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Oh I’m so sad. But it brings me joy to to his story didn’t end without love and care. You are a good human.
knowing people cared at the end must have been sweet for bear.
So sad to see this, and also so glad he had love and comfort and relief from pain in his last days. Thank you.
Thank you for making Bear’s last days so comfortable and loved.
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At first I thought... and then I realized.... and then I saw what they did for him.
You and your team should be very proud of what you do. You are a beacon of humanity in our political, cynical world.
I'm so deeply sorry 😭🫂 such sad news. Run free Bear 🩵
My dream of heaven is a place I will go when this weary world is done with me and I will be greeted by all the dogs I’ve loved on earth. Thank you for helping them on their journey.
At least (and it was a huge thing, so not "least" at all) his life ended in comfort and dignity, surrounded by love (and a bit of tasty poached chicken) instead of that alleyway. Bear knew he mattered. ❤️
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So sad but you gave him love ❤️
How sad, so sorry, thank you for doing what you do so well 😢
Another friend crosses the rainbow bridge 🐾❤️
In the end, he knew he was loved. ❤️ That is the greatest gift.
Run free from pain sweet Bear ❤️
He had love, comfort, and peace too. Your team made all the difference in the world for dear Bear.
I'm devastated. At least he knew some kindness and hopefully less pain.
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Bear experienced love and dignity at the end of his life, and those were great gifts given to him by Happy Doggo! You did him proud!
So sad.😢
My heart breaks for Bear, you & your team, & all of us who were rooting for Bear 💔 This never gets easy Niall, I honestly don't know how you do it - I'm an absolute wreck when you lose one of these precious dogs. Only solace I have is knowing they were given love/compassion/dignity in the end 💙🫶🐾💙
Heartbreaking- I was so sure he would make it. Such a beautiful face. Deserved more life but you gave him love. ❤️
Without you and your angels he would never have felt that tender, loving caress. Thank you all for making the world a kinder place.
At the end he knew he was loved.
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Poor little bear 🥲 Thank you for not giving up with bear. May bear run fast at the rainbow 🌈 bridge.
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Bear RIP 💔😔
...and he had love 💞💔
Absolutely heartbreaking. I've been down this same road. It's burned an eternal hole in my heart.
Heart breaking 💔. I read the story earlier this am, cried like a baby. You and your team are earth angels. The gift of dignity and love. Always. Rest well Bear…
Poor little Bear, I wish he could enjoy life for a bit longer in your care. You’ve done more for him than the rest of humanity combined.
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RIP sweet Bear💜
Thank you for giving Bear love, care and respect in his final days. ❤️
Dance easy, pain free, across the rainbow bridge, sweet Bear. Thank you Naill and team for giving Bear dignity and peace in his latter days. 💔🩵🩵🐕🐾🐾🌈
😭😭😭 rest in peace, Bear.
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Goodbye big beautiful Bear. You were a good boy who was deeply loved 🐻❤️
I'm so sorry for you and the Team on the loss of Bear. Thank you for all you do for the dogs
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So so sad 😭
he was not crying in pain. Thank you for giving him comfort and peace
He was just tired 💔 Thank you for giving him his dignity, and peace 🫶🏻
Thank you to you and your team.