Dice was a very unique dog. I got Dice form the Gloucester-Mathews humaine society.They told my mom and dad that Dice was around 3yrs. and that he was once a stray. Dice never showed any signs of ever being a stray dog so we thought that was kinda odd, we always talked about what could've happened to him because he wa sso wonderful. We always thought that maybe Dice was on vacation with his family and maybe he got lost or wondered off. When I would take Dice to the park with my other two dogs he always seemed to wonder off anf he always liked to be alone or wiht me. He also enjoyed swinging on the swing set as wierd as that may seem. Dice was very quiet and he never barked. Everynight when I would go to bed he would jump up on my bed and he always slept next to me and layed his head on my pillow and he would stay right beside me all night. Dice was the best dog I had ever had, he was more of a best friend to me than a dog. One night Dice went and got in my bed, as usual, but i decided to stay up a little bit longer and talk on the internet. When i went in my room to go to sleep that night I yelled for Dice to get on the bed,but he didnt. I looked at the bottom of my bed and he wa slaying there as if he was asleep. When i reached down to pet him i picked his head up and he looked at me so helpless....I knew something was wrong. I woke my parents up and Dice was screaming and yelping when my dad went to go look at him, he had also vomitted and was just laying in it. We called every vet but there is not any emergency vets in Gloucester county, the closest vet was in York County across the Colman bridge. I had found Dice around 1:00 AM and we left my house at 2:00 am. On the way to the vet he would take deep breaths and then he wouldnt breathe for a few more seconds. Dice passed away in my arms before we even made it across the bridge. We do not know what happened to him or what made him sick and we will probably never know. We think that maybe Dice had a heart problem and that he had a heart attack. Everytime someone in my family would pick up a medicine bottle Dice would always jump up and look at it. We think that maybe the family that he lived with before had him on medication. I never thought that anything was ever wrong with my Dice...he was occasioanlly playful and he was always happy. I do not think i will ever have another dog like Dice. Right now I do want another dog, but it makes me feel guilty to get another dog, I am not trying to replace him, but it would help cope with his loss. I think that there is another dog out there that needs another, a friend, and needs me just like Dice did. I'm glad that I had Dice the last year and a half that he was alive. I know that he had a good home and a family that loved him,some dogs never get that. I hope Dice knows that he was loved as much as he was and I hope he knows how much he meant to me. I will never forget my Dice.