Chuck, Susan and I share your loss. Within the last year and a half we had our two Springers Tess and Toby die of cancer. They both were nearly 14 when they died. Lots of pawprint memories.
Gary On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Chuck Alexander < chuckalexan...@centurylink.net> wrote: > Folks: It’s been a pretty rough day or two (more like week or two) for > us well. I lost my beloved dog, and fishing partner Chihuahua “Peanut” > today at about 2pm this afternoon. Any time we hitched up the boat, or > started loading fishing gear into the car, she thought she HAD to go with > us. She had a cancer that started in her hips/spine. then spread to her > intestines,and her lymph nodes in her neck. And she was 15 yrs old, which > is VERY old for just about any breed of dog, even those like Chihuahua's > that tend to live long lives. You KNOW in your head they cannot live > forever, but you hope in your heart that they will got get when she was 5 > weeks old back on the about the 4th of July weekend. She had those tumors, > but they said she basically just “died of old age”. That is the one think > thing that makes us feel better is because she did lave a LONG, happy life, > and was hardly ever sick a day in her life. > She would have turned 15 this June 8th. All the Vets could do was to make > her comfortable, as I didn’t want to have to put her to sleep unless she > was in a lot of pain. They had her on pain meds and steroids, and that made > her last days a LOT better, but it’s close like losing a kid to me and my > wife as we had her longer than any dog in our lives. Attached is a pic of > her and I out fishing near the “jetties” in Panama City Bch FL in the Fall > of 1999 when she was just a little puppy. Chuck > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
