How's your day going?
- Thread starter Boudie
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highsierrasmokin'
The battle's fought, the deed is done
Aorry
For the loss of your dog. I know it can be a rough time.We've had a bit of a rollercoaster here.
Scheduled the replacement of all of our windows in the house. We hadn't planned on doing that for at least a year or two. But the price was right (less than 10k to do 8 windows that are 3'x6' and two smaller windows).
We also lost one of our doggos. We had three dogs. A frenchie, a mini dachshund and an english/american bulldog mix. When the wife and son came down we brought the frenchie. The mini weiner was acquired down here. We left the english up in NY with my stepson. When we moved my stepson down to MS with us about a month ago, all of the dogs were united.
Well a week ago this past sunday our English woke up fine. But mid morning he definitely wasn't right. Spent trying the normal stuff and it just didn't help. So off to the emergency vet - they suspected inner ear infection. Started treatment for that and planned to get into our vet first thing in the AM. Wife calls them in the AM - we get him in around 9. They take him and do an xray right away. Notice he's got fluid around his heart, filling his abdomen, etc. So he stays. They work on getting the fluid out during the day, while trying to make sure he's hydrated, etc.
We call end of day - and they suggest they keep him overnight as he hasn't improved a ton. Interesting bit is that they dont staff overnight, so they ask us to take him back to the E-Vets who will watch him overnight and then we'll pick him up in the AM and back to the regular vet he goes. (this is weird but hey whatever makes sure he's got someone watching)
I take the stepson with me and we head to the vets to grab him and move him. We get there and the vet let us know they had just done an ultrasound because they didn't like how he hadn't improved significantly. They found a tumor at the base of his heart (amongst other things like a pulmonary artery that was about 4 times too large).
So we made THE decision. The wife and kid came down to the vets office and we said our goodbyes
That was a rough day - especially on the wife and stepson. They take pet losses real hard for quite a while after.
One thing we often do is visit local shelters after losing a pet. There's no interest in a new dog. But we just want to be around others, pet them, etc.
So we did that this past friday. And for the first time ever ... we adopted one. Again no intentions, but this guy was special it seems.
So he was on a stray hold, we had to wait until Monday and he needed a neuter. So yesterday afternoon we took him home finally.
He's a three year old great dane who is underweight at 95 lbs. His name is Otis. I'll follow up with pictures in a bit. But so far he's getting along pretty well with the little dogs and he's hating that we wont let him lick the neuter wound. He gets the cone of shame if he doesn't listen!
He definitely came from a home at some point. He understands sit and he gives a paw for treats. He did NOT want to get into my truck so I'm wondering if someone didn't just dump him because they couldn't handle his size.
But right now he's passed out on the floor behind me and he spent the night snuggling in my stepson's bed with him. So I think he's going to be ok.
It's the Black Friday I'm headed back home after being with the family and having way too much turkey weekend on all the interstates. Me and my youngest son were dealing with this type of nonsense on I-95 North on Saturday.
