C&CDean
3/8/2010, 05:26 PM
I'm not much on the dying/dead animal threads, but I thought I'd share anyhow.
As some of you know, I've had a pair of rat terriers that we bought when my youngest got hit by a car and part of his therapy after coming out of a coma was to handle pets. Anyhow, Boomer and Sooner (male/female litter mates) came home with us the same day he got out of Jim Thorpe. That was 11 years ago this past October.
Over the past couple weeks Sooner (the female) has been losing weight and just sitting by the water bowl drinking literally gallons of water and not eating. Yesterday she started ****ting blood, so momma took her to the vet this afternoon. Vet said her kidneys had failed, and she was dehydrated and the rest of her organs would go next. Momma just had her put down.
She was a dog, and it was her time. She lived a great life on a ranch chasing gophers, squirrels, and probably has over 100 mice kills to her credit. Her brother (Boomer) is still healthy and going strong, and we've kept one of the strays I've talked about on here (Petey - who looks like Petey from the Little Rascals without a circle around her eye).
If you wanna have some nice thoughts, have them for the kid who's gonna miss Sooner. Please don't offer any of the Rainbow Bridge stuff even though I know it'd be well-meant. Like I said, I ain't big on dying animals going to an afterlife, yada yada. I'm sad she's gone, and I'm happy I didn't have to shoot her myself. That woulda been a tough one.
As some of you know, I've had a pair of rat terriers that we bought when my youngest got hit by a car and part of his therapy after coming out of a coma was to handle pets. Anyhow, Boomer and Sooner (male/female litter mates) came home with us the same day he got out of Jim Thorpe. That was 11 years ago this past October.
Over the past couple weeks Sooner (the female) has been losing weight and just sitting by the water bowl drinking literally gallons of water and not eating. Yesterday she started ****ting blood, so momma took her to the vet this afternoon. Vet said her kidneys had failed, and she was dehydrated and the rest of her organs would go next. Momma just had her put down.
She was a dog, and it was her time. She lived a great life on a ranch chasing gophers, squirrels, and probably has over 100 mice kills to her credit. Her brother (Boomer) is still healthy and going strong, and we've kept one of the strays I've talked about on here (Petey - who looks like Petey from the Little Rascals without a circle around her eye).
If you wanna have some nice thoughts, have them for the kid who's gonna miss Sooner. Please don't offer any of the Rainbow Bridge stuff even though I know it'd be well-meant. Like I said, I ain't big on dying animals going to an afterlife, yada yada. I'm sad she's gone, and I'm happy I didn't have to shoot her myself. That woulda been a tough one.