My dog Precious who was one month away from her 15th
Birthday had to be put to sleep Friday March 18, 2016. Back in January 2016 my
cat Missy who was a month away from her 17th Birthday had to be put
down too as I had blogged about.
Precious had a cancerous lump on her back that was really
bad and because of fear of it being cancer and her being so old we pretty much
knew if we took her to the vet that they would have to put her down so we put
off taking her which we regretted. Thursday March 17, 2016 she came into my
room and fell over. I caught her and called for my mom. Precious wandered
through the house falling over and we couldn’t get her to stop moving so we
could help her. We didn’t know what had happened as my parents had gone to
sleep and I had been in the bathroom but we heard a commotion a few minutes
before she started acting oddly and began falling over. We stayed up with her
until she calmed down and seemed to go back to normal.
Friday she was eating and drinking and was perky said my mom
so we were going to wait until Monday to take her to the vet but in the early
afternoon my mom called me into the living room to where Precious was having a
severe seizure. Afterwards she began wandering around the house falling over as
she had done the night before and we realized she must have had a seizure the
night before. So we got dressed quickly and phoned the vet which got us in 30
min later when the vet got back from lunch.
We got her in and we knew it was going to be the end and so
we had made the decision already. The vet assistant and vet said Precious was
very bad off and so because the lump was so large and had grown so fast it was
probably cancer and if we wanted to do blood tests we could but we decided not
to as we knew it was the end. After the seizure she hadn’t come back right and
looked herself and the vet said she was in pain as we had already guessed and
so we made the tough decision to put her to sleep.
It was so hard to do that and I cried so much. First Missy and
now Precious. The vet said we should leave Precious and not remember her like
that and that they would put her down but I said I didn’t want to. I didn’t
want strangers to be the last thing she saw. I wanted her to know I was there
and that she was a good dog and hadn’t down anything wrong. So we stayed with
her until she was gone.
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I had seen her only a few days after she had been born and I
was there when she passed. We hadn’t even intended to get Precious when she was
a puppy. We couldn’t have pets in the duplex where we lived and a neighbor friend
of mine said she wanted Precious. We went over everyday to play with the
puppies as I knew the owner who was a family friend.
Well when finally my mom said I could get a puppy I went
over and the only two puppies left were a brown one we had called Brownie, I
think, and Precious who was named something else by my neighbor friend who
wanted her. My neighbor friends’ dad wouldn’t let her have Precious though. So
when I sat in the chair Precious ran over and was much more persistent than
Brownie had been and I just knew she was for me. Though once I got Precious my
neighbor friend kept telling people I had stole her dog.
When we got home we kept saying aw isn’t she precious and
well the name stuck. Of course our cat Missy hated her from the start and even
slapped her in the eye the first day we brought Precious home. They were
frenemies from then on, lol! Odd that Missy and Precious passed away only a few months apart from each other.
I will forever love you my precious little pup! Your in my memories forever more! I will remember the good times!
