Today was a rough day....we had to put our lab, Charlie, down this morning. We took him to the vet last Wednesday b/c he didn't eat Tuesday & was not acting like himself. They at first said maybe he is just depressed b/c of your recent move. But then they ran a test, which came back positive for heart worms. That was terrible news; but they said we had caught it extremely early & he would only need two treatments instead of 3. They kept him at vet to monitor him after his shots. Then they said he quit drinking as well; which was not good. They ran an x-ray of his tummy over the weekend & said he had air pockets in his intestines & were going to give him meds to help things move out of his intestines. Well this morning they said he wasn't any better & wanted to perform surgery. Unfortunately, we couldn't afford the surgery on top of what we had already had to pay for his heart worm treatments, etc. We had to put him down. It killed me to put him down b/c we couldn't afford surgery. But the vet called afterwards & she opened him up to look at his intestines & said there was part of a leach in it!! She said it was so bad, they would have had to put him down anyway...that we made the right decision.
Your animals become part of your family; so it was very difficult to say goodbye to Charlie today. He was such a sweet & loving dog. He had a wonderful temperament, and just wanted to be loved on all the time. He is truly going to be missed...but I know he is in doggy heaven now & isn't suffering anymore.
RIP Charlie....We love you buddy
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