I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. It is never easy to lose a dear friend.
Marsha
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "zilla963" <zilla963@...> wrote:
>
> This is sort of off topic.. but wanted to share...
> My cavalier king charles spaniel that i have mentioned occaisionally died last night..
>
> He was diagnosed in June with a grade 3 heart murmur and the beginnings of
> congestive heart failure... We put him on medication when the coughing became
> more than occaisional and he had been slowly declining since then.
>
> except for not wanting to eat once in a while he was happy and not acting sick... ( but he ate if I gave him wet food, so how bad could it be?)
>
> anyway .. it was my birthday yesterday and he seemed very chipper.. almost no coughing and begging for treats at every chance... which was a nice gift for me to think that he was stabalizing on his meds and I would get more time with him...
>
> the meds make him have to pee all the time so getting up in the middle of the night has become habit... he got up at 11:30, I let him out and when he came back in, he often dawdles so I go back to bed with out him and he usually follows about 15 min later ... he didnt come up this time..
>
> when my husband woke at 3:30 I could hear him talk to the dog downstairs, and then he called up that i should come down, I knew what he was going to say...
> It looks like his heart gave out in his sleep. He looks peaceful I am grateful that he didhnt have to spend any time miserable ( look at youtube videos of dogs with congestive heart failure)
>
> Also on a positive note, now that he is gone, my other dog, a DDR Shephard, no longer has to be crated ( the two were very naughty together) so he can be a more effective deterant to anyone that comes to the door...
>
> When hubby gets home tonight we will take care of his remains.. I have videos of him at ZillasCoop on youtube... I am gonna miss him..
>
> Back to your regularly scheduled program..
>
> Lisa
> SCentral Wi
>
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