Chuck,
So sorry to hear about yous loss, but what Joyce said, you did the right
thing . A true friend leaves paw prints on your heart .
Donna....,,,
On Wednesday, November 23, 2016, Joyce M Westphal <[email protected]>
wrote:
> So sorry for your loss, but you did the right thing for your faithful
> friend. Glad you didn't put him through more suffering. I hope you will be
> comforted by your good memories. I am convinced that our beloved animals
> are awaiting us when we, too, have passed. Joyce
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Chuck Alexander <
> [email protected]
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>
>> Folks: First off, I hope everybody has a Happy Thanksgiving and remembers
>> to be thankful for the things we have whether it’s our health, a roof over
>> our heads or whatever.
>>
>> That being said, we had to put our dog Chico (see attached photo) down
>> today. He had herniated his bladder and needed a VERY dangerous, and VERY
>> expensive ($2500 minimum and could be up to $5,000 after they got in there
>> to see what they were really dealing with) that we just didn’t just have
>> surgery to ATTEMPT to fix it. What made if more dangerous was that no vet
>> around here had ever even seen this particular problem, and they sais that
>> at 15+yrs old, it would be a 50/50 shot at him even waking up from surgery.
>> So anyway, he had had it for a while now, but e could still urinate
>> properly and wasn’t in any real pain as the hernia would pop out and then
>> go back in after he’s go to the bathroom. But yesterday evening, we let the
>> dogs out to go to the bathroom when he came in the hernia was still
>> sticking out and would not go back in. He also had stopped eating and/or
>> drinking anything by the time we got him to the Vet with a 24 hour ER
>> service, and they recommended that at his age and the given prognosis, the
>> best thing was to put him out of his misery.
>>
>> For any pet lovers here, you know what a hard decision it was to do that,
>> but we’d rather that than to see him in pain and moaning and groaning and
>> it would not heal itself. He had been my fishing buddy since he was born
>> back in 2001. He LOVED to go out fishing and especially in the boat (again,
>> see the photo), but soon as we’d leave the dock in 5 minutes he’s be sooooo
>> excited by getting to go fishing only to lay on the cool aluminum bottom
>> of the boat and sleep till we got through fishing LOL... Just the work
>> fishing like I said, sent him into a fit. He’d go outside and jump into the
>> boat, which was almost 4ft off the ground when it was on the trailer. All
>> our other dogs could take it or leave it as far as fishing goes, but Chico
>> went berserk.
>>
>> Then, I didn’t get to do much fishing this yr as my back and knee has
>> been really been acting up, but I went bank fishing at a friends lake just
>> this last week and something told me to take Chico with me. I did and he
>> loved it of course, even without the boat. I’m sure gonna miss the old boy
>> cause he always let me catch the most fish LOL.. We lost his Momma Peanut
>> back on April 17, 2014 at the age of 15 as well (April 17th is my birthday,
>> so that kinda put a damper on that birthday, but Peanut was in a lot of
>> pain as well, so it was also good that she was no longer in pain and now
>> neither is Chico. Sorry for writing a book, but he was a part of the
>> family. He was actually my son Daniel’s dog, but he lives in an apt. that
>> won’t let him have pets so Chico lived here. We buried him out back just a
>> little bit ago beside his Momma Peanut. Thanks for listening. Chuck
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