Duncan “Mac” MacLeod
Mac was a devoted companion
07/19/2007 -
03/31/2018
My heart broke last Saturday when my beloved Mac died suddenly and unexpectedly from congestive heart failure at 11 years old. He was so devoted to me and had a heart of pure gold. He such a very obedient boy and would often anticipate what should be done before you even asked. I was sick in bed years ago with left side pain and a fever. He stayed by me constantly. He kept looking deeply into my eyes like he was trying to tell be something. Unusually, he stepped very slowly and very gingerly upon me, avoiding my left side, and then looked deeply in my eyes and then gently pawed that left side. Turned out I had a perforated colon and required the removal of 18″ of colon. Mac was SO in tune with me. He always greeted me happily at the door, curled up in the small of my back at night and was always at my feet at home. Unusual for a sheltie, my boy never met a stranger and everyone adored him. My loss is profound.
Memorial created on April 8, 2018
by Susan
I lost my Duncan almost 2 months ago.
He too was named after Duncan McLeod. Your boy sounds like such a sweetie. I know how much it hurts, and I am truly sorry for your loss.
I am so so sorry for your loss, Mac is your soul dog and you will see and be with each other again, He took such good care of you and saved your life. That is a friendship that goes on forever.
We lost our little sheltie girl, Darby, almost exactly 2 years ago. She’s was our little fur baby because we have no kids. She was 14 and had thyroid cancer and congestive heart failure. We had to let her go. I had a little talk with her before she passed and told her that I would see her later and asked her if there was some way she could let me know if she was okay on the other side. She was my little soul mate girl, it broke my heart.
When she was alive, I think she also possibly saved my life when someone was trying to open our front door at 9:00 at night when I was alone at home and my husband was working late. She attacked that front door like I’ve never seen before and scared them away.
The reason I think that Mac is watching over you now and will see you again is because of something that happened to me a couple of days after Darby died.
When she was alive, she, like most shelties, whenever I was in the bathroom, she would open the bathroom door to check on me and make sure I was okay. Which I thought was adorable and made me laugh.
A couple of days after she passed, several times when I would get out of the shower, I noticed the bathroom door open just a little bit when I know that I had closed it. Then when one day when I was sitting on the throne (so to speak) in the bathroom, I actually watched the bathroom door open by itself. I was amazed. I really think that it was Darby coming back when I most needed her, in her silly sweet way, to check on me in the bathroom (like she was when she was alive) and see if I was okay and to let me know that she’s was okay. It made me laugh and helped me to feel at peace during a horribly sad time because she let me know her little soul was very much alive somewhere and came to visit. After that time, the bathroom door never opened by itself again.
A couple of months after Darby passed, my husband and I adopted our sheltie boy, Ross, and now he opens the bathroom door to check on me which, of course, makes me laugh.
My heart still breaks for my dear sister. Mac is in fur heaven tho and not suffering. RIP Mac. ?