Martha's Dead Dog: It's a Good Thing?

16. Most all of us have lost a pet at some point in our life. It hurts....but after a couple of hours of reflecting on the good times you shared with your companion (and maybe a few tears), you dig a large hole in the back yard and resume your life. What will Martha have us do next?....perhaps line up to view the dog's corpse in the Capitol rotunda?

Posted at 11:16AM on Apr 17th 2008 by Huckleberry Hound

17. Martha has lost her mind! I know how terrible it is to lose a beloved pet but to take pics of your dog while it is dying! come on people! I think she flipped her lid!

Posted at 11:21AM on Apr 17th 2008 by blf

18. Everybody loathes a self-made, rich woman. Its her business.

Posted at 11:22AM on Apr 17th 2008 by Granny Pants

19. Martha is doing what animal experts recommend - that is to let the other dogs (or pets) see and smell that the beloved pet has died and not just disappeared suddenly. Animals understand and will also grieve. We lost our wonderful dog and let our other sweet one sniff and see she was gone. That night we heard the most mournful howl and knew the sadness and loss the other one felt. Our hearts were already broke at our loss and totally understood his was too. He got to sleep in our room for the first time that night. If you are an animal lover you know what it's like. Don't judge someone so harshly that has suffered such a loss. Just because she did it a little dressier than most of us would, she still lost a long loved companion. Peace.

Posted at 11:22AM on Apr 17th 2008 by Juicy Lucy

20. It is not uncommon to hold a "wake" for your family pet. And it is the right thing to do to bring the pet home if there are other animals so that the animals can sniff the dog and know that it is desceased. They really are smart, dogs. We did it with our dog, let her companion dog of 6 years know where she had gone. For several months afterward he would lay on her grave. It was also a good lesson for our children to be able to accept her death. Martha is not weird, she is just doing it right. If people had more respect for animals there would not be so much animal abuse in this world.

Posted at 11:22AM on Apr 17th 2008 by gonetothedogs

21. Lucy~ You are exactly right. Loosing a pet is very tough!

Posted at 11:25AM on Apr 17th 2008 by Dallas

22. There's nothing wrong with this. It's life and death and so what if the other dogs are sniffing the body. Are you worried they may end up in therapy because of it being so "traumatic"? Give me a break....this is just Martha's way of honoring her dead pet. There's nothing creepy about it.

Posted at 11:27AM on Apr 17th 2008 by Alicia

23. Kind of sweet and creepy at the same time.

Posted at 11:30AM on Apr 17th 2008 by lili

24. did you read her blog? Did you actually walk through it picture by picture and read it? She lost a pet who was part of her family for 13 years and was sharing her loss on the blog. It was beautiful, heartbreaking and real. Nothing wrong with it at all. Much better then just placing it in a trash bag and throwing it out like garbage like most of the trash around here would do.

Posted at 11:28AM on Apr 17th 2008 by you r scum

25. Martha is RIGHT ON! You are supposed to let the other pets see or smell the deceased pet. They understand the scent of death. It's much better than their companion just disappearing one day. Any vet will tell you the same. Get educated TMZ!

Posted at 11:36AM on Apr 17th 2008 by Wendy

26. TMZ. Once again you have sunk to new lows. Yesterday you had a picture of Chris Cage showing instead of Christian Bando. Many of us called you out on it. Last night, you must have had all of you retarded little elves scanning the comments to delete anything that pointed out your mistake. How pathetic that you can't just own up to your lousy editing.

PEOPLE WHO POST HERE NEED TO KNOW THEY EDIT YOUR COMMENTS IF THEY DON'T LIKE THEM.

By the way. Who's creeper..Martha Stewert for sharing a personal picture on her blog for her fans? Or TMZ for turning it into something meaningless..

Posted at 11:34AM on Apr 17th 2008 by Disgusted again

27. My beloved Sunny Bear received the same treatment. I buried him at my front door and NO ONE PASSES WITHOUT PAYING RESPECT. He lived 18 years. I miss him, always.

Sunny Bear
1988 - July 3, 2006
Rainbow Bridge

Posted at 11:36AM on Apr 17th 2008 by guess who

28. Oh, well! What is the big deal?? She could have bought a pretty casket. She had the dog for a long time and she is paying respects.

Posted at 11:37AM on Apr 17th 2008 by sharon

29. It's not sick, creepy or wrong to do this for a beloved pet. Maybe a few of you have never experienced the unconditional love of a pet, so you don't understand the special bond between pets and humans. Animals don't judge, hold grudges, or criticize like people. Martha is doing this for her dog to show people that it's common to mourn a pet in public without having some bozo say, "It's only a dog. You can get a new one." Try saying that to a parent who has lost a child. "You can always have another one."

Posted at 3:48PM on Apr 17th 2008 by Jessicatx

30. Let Martha do what she wants but some of us do not want to see this on TMZ. She is one nutty broad who needs a man so she can quit sleeping with the dogs. woof-woof.

Posted at 11:42AM on Apr 17th 2008 by Dismayed