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Our Miniature Schnauzer of thirteen years, Savannah, passed away tonight.
She'd been having bad health for the past two year or so, starting when she was diagnosed with diabetes. Several months ago she went underwent a significant operation to have cancer removed from her teats. It was pretty hard on her at that age, and she just became progressively more lethargic after that.
This past week it'd been hard to get her to eat, and her breathing had gotten a little heavier. She didn't seem to be in any real discomfort or pain, just very, very tired all the time. She was supposed to go to the vet tomorrow, but tonight she started gasping all of the sudden. It all happened just...extremely fast, I heard my sister crying and came out and not long after that she was gone.
We're having her cremated tomorrow, and that'll be it..I guess. It's just so weird, she was the first and so far only dog we'd raised completely from a puppy. She was always around, always there, ever since we moved into this house. It's hard to really nail it down, but I just don't think I can comprehend it completely right now.
I know i'm frustrated, at least. That I don't know what it was, specifically, and never will (No one wants an autopsy done or anything of the sort, assuming they do them for animals, I don't think they want to know). If it was our fault or something we failed to do for her, if she should've been taken in sooner or if it wouldn't have made a difference. I don't know. I'm just very, very tired right now.
She'd been having bad health for the past two year or so, starting when she was diagnosed with diabetes. Several months ago she went underwent a significant operation to have cancer removed from her teats. It was pretty hard on her at that age, and she just became progressively more lethargic after that.
This past week it'd been hard to get her to eat, and her breathing had gotten a little heavier. She didn't seem to be in any real discomfort or pain, just very, very tired all the time. She was supposed to go to the vet tomorrow, but tonight she started gasping all of the sudden. It all happened just...extremely fast, I heard my sister crying and came out and not long after that she was gone.
We're having her cremated tomorrow, and that'll be it..I guess. It's just so weird, she was the first and so far only dog we'd raised completely from a puppy. She was always around, always there, ever since we moved into this house. It's hard to really nail it down, but I just don't think I can comprehend it completely right now.
I know i'm frustrated, at least. That I don't know what it was, specifically, and never will (No one wants an autopsy done or anything of the sort, assuming they do them for animals, I don't think they want to know). If it was our fault or something we failed to do for her, if she should've been taken in sooner or if it wouldn't have made a difference. I don't know. I'm just very, very tired right now.