Very, very ill Beagle

[Pat H Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pat H]

I'm so sorry. I know what you are going through. Had to put our Buddy to sleep last year. He was 15 1/2. I hope Scooter recovers but whatever happens I know you will do what's best for him. My thoughts are with you.

[opkansas Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close opkansas]

Just a note to tell you that Scooter, my beloved 13+ y.o.Baby-Beagle-Boy (pictured in my avatar) is gravely ill and is in the ICU at Tufts School of Veterniary Medicine in Grafton, Ma.
He was diagnosed with lung cancer with mets to the brain last October, so no hope for him. He was responding well to chemo & radiation palliatively since then, but took a turn for the worse yesterday having had chemo on Thursday. His quality of life has been very good since October, but things have taken a dramatic down-turn.
I adopted him at 8 months. He was a field trial show dog champ who broke from the pack during a show and was hit by a car. His then-owner took him to the vet and wanted to know what his chances of being a show dog were since he had a tib-fib fx. The vet told him 90%. His old owner said, "put him down". The vet said, "don't let the door hit you on your ass on your way out. Get out ". The vet put him back together and called around for a home for this little guy. I had just lost my Beagle Dixie to cancer/renal failure about two months earlier and when word got to my own vet, they called me. I've had him ever since. I call him "my love sponge". He was so needy and wanted to be loved.
If any of you have any connections to St. Francis, patron saint of the animals, will you ask ?
Thanks,
Beaglemom3 (Scooter, Lucy & Dixie)

I too am so sorry about Scooter. I lost my best friend, HollyWolf, on January 25th 2007 while I was in CA on business. She had a couple of seizures, then a stroke, and I did not have time to come home to tell her goodbye before she passed. Her picture is in the other forum under the name BillR.

I truly understand your grief. When I finally got home, I was in hell . . . and a tear just rolled down my face while writing . . thinking . . .and feeling.

My 3rd oldest daughter decided to try to cheer me up by bringing one of her 5 dogs to see me hoping some of the pain would go away. I was not in the mood, but Annie, a springer spaniel, has won me over. and she is now living with us. She is so different than my wolf but she is filling needed voids and keeping us busy. She is 7 years old - incontinent at times - peed on the rug in the dining room twice and destroyed our living room blinds.

She has found garden snakes in our blue spruce in the back yard. She rattles the branches, a snake falls out and she bites the snake in two and rolls in its remains.

God, I miss my princess . . . but Annie . . .

Jeanne, I understand!

Bill

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

Just a quick note as I'm off to Tufts. Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University Lots of good info here for your pet & news re: the pet food recall.

His WBC dropped from 50,000 (he was able to launch a defense against the pneumonia) to 13,000, however, he did pick his head up and eat a little of the beef broth. He fell back asleep in my hands as I was stroking him through the portals of the oxygen cage.

He's isolated from the other ICU animals and is on reverse precautions (sort of like when someone has to be protected from others' diseases).

He made it through the night (I left at 2 am).

Thank you all for sharing your stories. It's a sad club that we belong to, yet the pain is worth all those good years together.

Gratefully,
Beaglemom

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

You are in our thoughts and prayers. Keep the faith.

[grest Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close grest]

How are you doing, Jeanne?
Connie

[Linda VH Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Linda VH]

Thoughts and prayers are with you! Linda

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

Scooter is rapidly failing and will be released from all this very, very soon.

He was at Tufts today and there is nothing else that can be done for him.

I asked him if he could do this himself and not make me do it.

He is the noblest of creatures. All the vets came into say goodbye to him. They said that when he came for chemo, they never put him in a cage, but rather, they had him hang out with him in the oncology office.

I have truly appreciated all of your kind words, thoughts, prayers and wishes.

He will be returned to God.

Late note: If I owe you a PM or email, please know that I will get back to you when I can. Thanks.

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

So sorry Beags, I was hoping he was going to pull threw this.

[IreneLF Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close IreneLF]

Beags, so sorry.
I've been there, I know.
You will both be in my thoughts,
Irene

[Glitter Brunello Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Glitter Brunello]

I am so sorry. My heart goes out to you.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

I am so sorry. I'm glad you had these last few weeks together, though.

[ArtsieAng Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close ArtsieAng]

So sorry Beags. I know how much you loved Scooter, and how much he will be missed.

You are both, in my thoughts, and prayers.

[1950bing Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close 1950bing]

So so sorry.
The love from a pet is unlike any other !
Lots of us have been where you are right now, know that you are not alone.
Soon the tears will clear and then all the wonderful memories will start to flow.
Your pet had a wonderful life thanks to caring folks like you. I know your Scooter thought so too !!!
May God bless.

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

So sorry to hear about your dear pet. It is very hard to let them go after they have been a part of the family for so long.

[jerseywolfe Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jerseywolfe]

Very sorry about Scooter. I had to do this once and was not easy.