Im feeling really amped up. It isn't like me to be up this late as I have been going to sleep at 11pm at the latest. Yes this means having to bookmark druffs shows and listening to them at my leisure. Losing your dog by having to put him to sleep is definitely the worst thing I had to go through. I lost my dog at the end of July of this year. He was a 13 year old lab. He was a big dog weighing in at 90 pounds. We really got him in good shape the past few years. He was 105 at six and out of shape then. My wife would make him rice and fish. The dog was our master not the other way around. I think I made a huge mistake by not getting him trained as a puppy leading him to be an Alpha dog to the nth degree. Really I had to get permission from him so to speak to sleep with my wife when he allowed me to. His bed was next to her side of the bed. If I was sleeping in the bed he would wine non stop in a really high pitched way that made it impossible to sleep forcing me to sleep downstairs . That dog loved my wife as much as I did, I will say that. Every day when she would come home that dog would be doing a happy dance for about 10 minutes. I didn't get that type of a reception , lol. I spent a lot of money on that guy. He had a hematoma in his ear that was almost 2 gs. Fucking vets. They had to pop the blood clot and it got infected they did another surgery and where at least reasonable by not charging me the second time which I assure you did not happen with vets. I had a really good vet he went to for the past 7 years.
A few months ago maybe six months or so he got a pink growth in his right nostril. He was always in good health aside from the hematoma. We had a scare with him last year when my wife took him for a walk and he collapsed. My wife called me to get him . He was lying by a bush panting with his tongue double its size. Off course I googled immediately when I saw the pink growth in his nose. Fuck. Cancer said he had 4 months to live. He made it around six months. 4 months ago im guessing the cancer was spreading and he wasn't able to walk I had to carry him outside. Took him to the vet gave him pills he was walking up the stairs that day after being incapacitated. The fucking growth got bigger and bigger deforming his face and his eyes started running. We probably kept him a week longer then we should have because he was coughing up blood at the end and that growth was really big. The day we took him to be euthanized he was the first dog to be seen. Vets always have a long wait didn't want to put him through that. He hated going to the vet. Gave him a shot to relax him didn't work he refused to be sedated from the shot. The second shot was pretty fast. Had his head on my lap as he was taking his final breaths I went out of the room heartbroken. His memory is all over the house.
It really really sucks to lose your dog. He was such a fighter he would have battled and suffered another month , I couldn't do that to him. He died at the end of July. Thinking about getting a cat. Maybe a Tabby. A few people on this forum lost their dogs. Its devastating to lose such a loyal friend.
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