Hi everyone. I hope you had a good Sunday and enjoyed the football games and whatever else makes you smile.
Here it is about 12:40 AM Monday and I am still feeling so sad. Sunday morning we got a call from a freind to tell us he was very worried about his dog, Zeke who is a 13 yr old, beautiful, intelligent, much loved member of the family and a good friend of ours too. We said we would be right out and drove over to take a look at the pooch.
I knew right away that this was a much sicker dog than was thought and advised we take him to a quality pet hospital immediately. We live out in the country and there were no local pet hospitals open. So we loaded Zeke into the back of our station wagon and drove 75 miles to an excellent Hospital we knew was open.
He had to be carried in on a stretcher. He was so weak! Yet Friday he was playing and romping around. They did blood work and tests and found he was over run with a bacteriological infection and was “septic” with a white blood count of only 1200.
After more time waiting for results, finally….the vet said that he was in shock and his systems were closing down. There was less than a 50/50 chance that they could save him but it would cost $5000,00 to make the attempt, but at 13 years, it was super slim.
So the decision was made to let him go as mercifully as possible with a shot to euthanize him while he was being held and loved. I couldn’t hold back the tears. I wept and felt the pain that my friend was feeling because I have been to that place too and I know how it hurts.
The bill was substantial and when asked what he wanted to do with Zeke’s body my friend said to cremate him, but when he heard how much it would be to get a private cremation with a return of the ashes in a wooden memorial box, he just couldn’t afford it. But I couldn’t stand the thought of having Zeke’s ashes treated like refuse and just dumped somewhere. That would be so wrong. So I told the vet, whom I know well because she takes care of my babies, all of my cats and dogs, that she should do the private cremation and give him Zeke’s ashes and I would pay for it.
It seemed little enough to do given the huge loss he has just experienced. The love of our pets is one of the greatest joys that can be experienced. They can also be the source of intense pain when they have to leave us.
I’m glad to have a family of friends I can share my thoughts with even in the middle of the night. Hug your fuzzy, four footed kids tight because they can so soon and unexpectedly be taken away. And I know you do StelBel, Dry, Cleokaya, Sugie, Grog, x_Tech, JP Steve, Lonewolf, Chikaka and all the rest of our animal loving gang at CD
Hi everyone. I hope you had a good Sunday and enjoyed the football games and whatever else makes you smile.
Here it is about 12:40 AM Monday and I am still feeling so sad. Sunday morning we got a call from a freind to tell us he was very worried about his dog, Zeke who is a 13 yr old, beautiful, intelligent, much loved member of the family and a good friend of ours too. We said we would be right out and drove over to take a look at the pooch.
I knew right away that this was a much sicker dog than was thought and advised we take him to a quality pet hospital immediately. We live out in the country and there were no local pet hospitals open. So we loaded Zeke into the back of our station wagon and drove 75 miles to an excellent Hospital we knew was open.
He had to be carried in on a stretcher. He was so weak! Yet Friday he was playing and romping around. They did blood work and tests and found he was over run with a bacteriological infection and was “septic” with a white blood count of only 1200.
After more time waiting for results, finally….the vet said that he was in shock and his systems were closing down. There was less than a 50/50 chance that they could save him but it would cost $5000,00 to make the attempt, but at 13 years, it was super slim.
So the decision was made to let him go as mercifully as possible with a shot to euthanize him while he was being held and loved. I couldn’t hold back the tears. I wept and felt the pain that my friend was feeling because I have been to that place too and I know how it hurts.
The bill was substantial and when asked what he wanted to do with Zeke’s body my friend said to cremate him, but when he heard how much it would be to get a private cremation with a return of the ashes in a wooden memorial box, he just couldn’t afford it. But I couldn’t stand the thought of having Zeke’s ashes treated like refuse and just dumped somewhere. That would be so wrong. So I told the vet, whom I know well because she takes care of my babies, all of my cats and dogs, that she should do the private cremation and give him Zeke’s ashes and I would pay for it.
It seemed little enough to do given the huge loss he has just experienced. The love of our pets is one of the greatest joys that can be experienced. They can also be the source of intense pain when they have to leave us.
I’m glad to have a family of friends I can share my thoughts with even in the middle of the night. Hug your fuzzy, four footed kids tight because they can so soon and unexpectedly be taken away. And I know you do StelBel, Dry, Cleokaya, Sugie, Grog, x_Tech, JP Steve, Lonewolf, Chikaka and all the rest of our animal loving gang at CD