I'm so sorry for your losses. When I lost my Doggie Toby I was soooo sad. We were going to go on a trip and we needed someone to doggiesit Toby, so my dad's friends agreed to doggiesit Toby for us. Just before they came to pick Toby up I kept feeling really worried like something was going to happen to Toby... But my mom and dad kept telling me he was going to be fine. A little while later they came and picked him up, I remember Toby in the back of their car looking at me as if to say don't make me go, just as the car went down the road. A couple of hours later just as we were packing for the trip, we got a phone call from them saying that Toby ran away from them.... They lived in a farm out in the country. Apparently Toby peed in their house so they gave him a smack on the bum and sent him outside- WITHOUT A LEASH! They have a dog and my dad seen them punish it before and they just woop the dog so hard... and thats what they probibly did to poor Toby. Anyway, we went there to help search for Toby, but we never found him. The next day we went on the trip. The whole way i was soo sad! A couple of days later they phoned us on the cell and told us that they had found Toby on the side of the road dead, but I don't beleive that! i think that they were too lazy to search for him anymore so they just told us a lie to not have to search anymore. I hope Toby found a home and is happy now. i don't beleive he died... but he's gone They never once said sorry to me at all for loosing my dog! My dad took them to court a while after a few times... he won. but Toby will never be replaced by a wining argument in court! he will always be remembered! When we got back from our trip I kept expecting toby to come greet me at the door, but it never happened. Well there's my story of what happened to my lil babes! I wish he was still here... When I got Tibbee I kept feeling like I was being unfaithful to toby because it looked like I was replacing him, but i knew in my heart I could never replace him, but I love Tibbee and I know tibbee will never be like toby but I know tibbee is not toby and that I love tibbee because of his own personality!