rest in peace, jake.
My dog Jake just died.
According to Mother, he got into a bag of raisins last night and got sick, so she took him to the vet first thing in the morning -- his kidneys were giving out on him, and the vet said the kidney failure must have been going on for a while. He slipped into a coma on the way to the ER (or whatever the animal equivalent is, I think it's still an ER), and then he died. Mom said he went peacefully, though, so at least he didn't have to suffer.
I teased him about being horribly neurotic, and he was, and about smelling horrible, which he did, but he really was such a sweet dog. He just wanted people who'd love him -- we adopted him from the SPCA, and they found him wandering around West Virginia; he'd clearly been abused, and even after living with us for almost two years, he was still pretty skittish, especially around men. He had tiny little legs because he was a yellow lab/beagle mix, so he he looked kind of like a puppy even though he was five or six.
This post isn't terribly coherent. I'm sorry. I should've spent more time with him. I didn't realize I wouldn't have very long.
According to Mother, he got into a bag of raisins last night and got sick, so she took him to the vet first thing in the morning -- his kidneys were giving out on him, and the vet said the kidney failure must have been going on for a while. He slipped into a coma on the way to the ER (or whatever the animal equivalent is, I think it's still an ER), and then he died. Mom said he went peacefully, though, so at least he didn't have to suffer.
I teased him about being horribly neurotic, and he was, and about smelling horrible, which he did, but he really was such a sweet dog. He just wanted people who'd love him -- we adopted him from the SPCA, and they found him wandering around West Virginia; he'd clearly been abused, and even after living with us for almost two years, he was still pretty skittish, especially around men. He had tiny little legs because he was a yellow lab/beagle mix, so he he looked kind of like a puppy even though he was five or six.
This post isn't terribly coherent. I'm sorry. I should've spent more time with him. I didn't realize I wouldn't have very long.