Jul 19, 2005 15:59
Cancer is an ugly thing.
For the past few months my mum's Australian Cattle dog, named Lilly, has been sufering from Lymph cancer. It attacks the lymph nodes, part of the nervous system, causing swelling, loss of muscular control, and other such things. Over the past few days the cancer started taking it's toll, to the point where the dog was put down this morning. I wasn't there, but from correspondence I can imagine the pain the poor dog was in. I won't list the details here, but I will say it was far from pretty. This is more of a shock as the onset was very sudden. It just goes to show that life is a very fragile thing.