robutacion
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Unfortunately, my gut feeling/suspicion was confirmed this morning in the cruellest way possible, after we got Zac home from the vet yesterday late afternoon, I spend a few hours to try to settle him at his preferred couch/bed that we share at dinner time and sometimes through the evening, he laid his head on my lap/legs as usual and my constant rubbing him has worked.
Before I went to bed I checked him out and he seemed OK/quite, he hadn't moved from that couch because he couldn't and he knew it but somehow at about 5:15 am I woke up with him "nudging" me as he always does about that time so that I let him in under the sheets until we get up.
By the time I got up he was laying down on the floor at the bottom of the bed, somehow he managed to find a way to the bedroom and wake me up with his nose, that laying in the bed with us was his "magic" time, as he tries to climb up and before I had time to put my hand under his bottom to help the lift, I've heard a loud crack coming from his right rear leg and he went down straight away, I could see his leg tangling around and I knew he had just broken that leg trying to get up.
That was the end of the sleep for both of us, we managed to move him to the couch again but this time his leg was broken and hurting him. I've done my best to settle him until we could put him in the car and back to the vet (open at 8:00 am), we were there at the open time but all vets were booked so they sent us to the other clinic they have a few miles away.
The vet was late so we managed to take zac inside the clinic and lay him down over a blanket they had laid on the floor for us, by 9:00 am the vet arrived and a quick inspection to his broken leg that by now was twice its normal size and he looked at us with that look and we knew exactly what he was trying to tell us. It was obvious that operating on the broken leg on a dog that was 13 1/2-year-old and that has just lost the ability to use his rear legs was not a fair solution for the poor animal and once again, we were there when the vet injected the lethal dose and in seconds Zac was no more...!
Unnecessary will be to say how we feel and how these last 2 days have been for us, Zac will also be cremated with Teddy and the ashes should be sent to us in a week or so.
Merissa and I, we are in shock and will continue to be for some time, losing our 2 beloved pets and only long-time companions in less than 2 days and in such way, is cruel in anyone's language, they both will be missed no doubt...!
http://www.penturners.org/forum/f18/we-lost-our-little-teddy-today-159175/
Cheers
George
Before I went to bed I checked him out and he seemed OK/quite, he hadn't moved from that couch because he couldn't and he knew it but somehow at about 5:15 am I woke up with him "nudging" me as he always does about that time so that I let him in under the sheets until we get up.
By the time I got up he was laying down on the floor at the bottom of the bed, somehow he managed to find a way to the bedroom and wake me up with his nose, that laying in the bed with us was his "magic" time, as he tries to climb up and before I had time to put my hand under his bottom to help the lift, I've heard a loud crack coming from his right rear leg and he went down straight away, I could see his leg tangling around and I knew he had just broken that leg trying to get up.
That was the end of the sleep for both of us, we managed to move him to the couch again but this time his leg was broken and hurting him. I've done my best to settle him until we could put him in the car and back to the vet (open at 8:00 am), we were there at the open time but all vets were booked so they sent us to the other clinic they have a few miles away.
The vet was late so we managed to take zac inside the clinic and lay him down over a blanket they had laid on the floor for us, by 9:00 am the vet arrived and a quick inspection to his broken leg that by now was twice its normal size and he looked at us with that look and we knew exactly what he was trying to tell us. It was obvious that operating on the broken leg on a dog that was 13 1/2-year-old and that has just lost the ability to use his rear legs was not a fair solution for the poor animal and once again, we were there when the vet injected the lethal dose and in seconds Zac was no more...!
Unnecessary will be to say how we feel and how these last 2 days have been for us, Zac will also be cremated with Teddy and the ashes should be sent to us in a week or so.
Merissa and I, we are in shock and will continue to be for some time, losing our 2 beloved pets and only long-time companions in less than 2 days and in such way, is cruel in anyone's language, they both will be missed no doubt...!
http://www.penturners.org/forum/f18/we-lost-our-little-teddy-today-159175/
Cheers
George
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