Send pics of your dog...I will need to have the wife look for the papers...Originally posted by 6APPEAL
BandAid≈, great looking white husky. I also have a white husky, Max. Who was your breeder?
That sucks man. Mine was very active. Left every night at about 9pm would come home at 8am with a dead friend, or covered in dirt (he was white).Originally posted by BLACK6PACK
I eat z06,
Sorry to hear that. Just lost my cat after 10 years. Was never sick very active and then a month ago he slowed down. After $1000 in vet bills I found out he had cancer in the chest really bad. Spent another $500 trying to keep him comfortable for about 3 weeks and he finally went about a mile from the vets office while I was taking him there to put him down. Was hard to watch him go.
Originally posted by Jack Evers
Posted this on the Labrador Retriever forum last June shortly after Ebby went to puppy heaven. Seeing all these pet stories made me think of her again. Still breaks my heart to think about it.
"Ebby was 7 1/2 and strong as a bull. It was heartbreaking to see her start withdrawing into the laundry room and leaving food in her bowl. That was about a month ago. Shortly after that she started stumbling a bit and we brought her to our primary vet. She thought it was an embolism in her spine and we treated her for that. She looked a bit better for a few days and then got worse. Her right front foot would buckle under when she walked and she would fall over. We were referred to a specialist and Ebby was in the hospital for several days undergoing tests. The diagnosis wasn't certain but she displayed all of the symtoms of Spinal Meningitis. The vets thought they had it under control with strong antibiotics and steroids so she came home a week ago last Tuesday. She was almost totally immobile but we hoped her physical therapy would get her back to walking under her own power. Ebby was such a proud girl and such a good girl she would hold her urine until we helped her outside supporting her with towels front and back. Toward the end, she couldn't even support herself when she squated to urinate and would fall into her own urine. She was assured it was okay, but as we lovingly cleaned her up and helped her back into the house, I know that this thing was killing her spirit. She seemed to be responding somewhat to physical therapy. I was shown how to excercise her in our own pool and did that twice a day until Sunday when, as much as she loves the water, she quit trying to swim. We took her back to the emergency hospital Sunday night. I visited with her again on Monday morning and brought her favorite meal (boiled ground beef). She wouldn't eat for me. Liz and I visited with her late in the afternoon and she was hooked up to a monitor and oxygen. The vets took a chest xray and pnumonia (sp?) had set in. She had been on antibiotics all along but now she was on very strong IV doses and not responding. We no sooner got home than we got a call asking us to come back. We found Ebby gasping to breath and literally sufficating. We have no choice but to end the suffering for Ebby. We have really struggled the past few days. What a wonderful friend she was. If heaven is what I think it is Ebby and her two older sisters, Bags and Rennie) that preceeded her will meet us there."
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