I never saw him intentionally hurt the pup, but when he was home and I wasn’t, I worried just the same. This past year my dog was not doing well, and I asked him to help me get him to the vet several times. Finally, I asked a coworker and she got her friend to come and help me pick him up and get him to the vet. This was Friday April 13 of ’07, after being examined, the vet told me that he had spodolosis of the spine but mush worse, his kidneys were failing. She said he was in the last stage of kidney failure. Why, why did this happen?? That dog was everything to me. He always will be.
I started doing some research and realized that maybe he had eaten some bad dog food. That was when all the pet recall had started, sure enough, in about one week my questions were answered. Since January of ’06, he had consumed over 100 cans of tainted dog food. The guilt I felt and still do of feeding my beloved pet bad food is just devastating. I know that I didn’t know, but what is wrong with people????? It doesn’t make things better. The vet told me the nicest thing I could do for him was to put him down. That was the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life. When I was signing the papers he was looking at me with those big brown loyal eyes. I begged the vet to find a way to save him and she kept insisting that he was too far gone. The best and kindest thing I could do was to put him to sleep. She said the renal failure was not something that I would want to watch so I took her advice. My friends took me back home and we all three cried and cried. The following week, they came to my work to see me and said they had something to give me. My friends had gone back down to the vet clinic the next morning and put my dogs paw print into plaster and then had it painted with his name on. When I saw that I started crying big time. What a wonderful thing to do for me!
