My dog is sick, scared it's serious

GlasweJen

We managed to get her to take them with no bother today (a few looks but nothing as bad as she usually is). She seems a lot better now and we caught her eating the pups meat (we still call her pup at 12 lol) and she's been neither up nor down with it.

@Cat

Glad she seems a bit better today, it's so horrid when they're ill x

GlasweJen

Unfortunately we had to let Tara go this morning. She was better for a few days and deteriorated, this morning she wasn't herself at all and the vet couldn't offer us any further help.

Thanks to everyone on here who posted kind wishes. We still have pup who is walking round the house looking for her mummy, the whole household is in pieces

The vet has given us paperwork from a company called Elysian Fields who are going to be cremating her, it will be an individual cremation and the vet who put her to sleep was the same vet who delivered her and the vet nurse who she's seen every visit since she was a baby so we feel that it was right.

meerkat2007

I'm so sorry to hear about little Tara.

julesmby

So sorry for your loss, a very sad time for you all :sad:

Byatt

I'm so sorry...hugs...

jackieglasgow

I am really sorry to hear about your wee dog Jen, we used that company when MIL's dog died a few years ago, and couldn't recommend the highly enough. xxx

needing-help

I am so sorry to hear your news. You must of looked after so well to get her to that age.
Elysian fields are great they have cremated 2 of mine now. You can actually go along to the cremation if you want to as well.

GlasweJen

Thanks everyone.

We're not really sure what to do with her ashes in terms of how to store them, we would have liked a papillion to keep her in but the company only do generic dogs and not specific breeds.

We're now arguing over wether to have a rock with her name on it or wether we should go for the generic dog. She (hopefully) wont be getting scattered for a long time as we plan to scatter her along with the pup when it's her time.

WolfSong2000

I'm so sorry . I recently lost 2 of my dogs and I know how heartbreaking it is, even when they're old and it's their time to go.

As for her ashes, why not store them in something plain and then keep an eye out for a model of a papillon which can be kept permanently as a memento, even after her and her pup's ashes have been scattered?

Also, I know it's not specifically pet related, but the following poem made a lot of sense to me when I lost my beloved dog Oscar last year (am sat here in tears just thinking about it!). Hopefully it will bring some comfort to you and help to remind you not of what is lost, but of all the love and memories that have been left.

Death Is Nothing At All
by Henry Scott Holland


"Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I, and you are you: whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you alway used. Put no difference into your tone: wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same that it ever was: there is absolutely unbroken continuity. What is this death but a gateway? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near just around the corner. All is well."