A very old stray {The Old Fella Story}
Went camping this weekend at a campground on the lake, had not been there for a few years. Once there I began to walk around looking at the different sites when I noticed a very old dog. He just lay t...
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Martyn wrote:Dixie Flyer wrote:
... I remember Old Fella in his last days as he struggled to walk and yet he wanted so much to go. The day he left us he was in Ava’s front yard watching Suzie playing. He was so content and just lay there with a smile on his face. As I walked to him he wagged his tail and rolled over on his side for me to comfort him. This is the hard part of having an aging pet. Yet it is rewarding to know you are making it easier for them to deal with the problems of old age.
Richard - it is very hard. Currently the light of my life, Princess, is really struggling. She has very quickly developed acute arthritis in her spine and hip joints (we had x-rays Saturday) and she can hardly walk or, sometimes, even get up.
Dr. has put her on Prednisone, Tramadol and a series of 8 injections to help the joints but we, and he, fear she is going downhill fast.
She is 13 now and we know that it will not be long before we have a dreadful decision to make. I have been through this a number of times before, but this one is going to be the hardest. We think that this weekend's camping trip will be her last...
Here she is with you, me and Fella at the Colorado Old Fella Rally:
That was the last rally for Levi as he went to Rainbow Bridge that November. That caught us completely by surprise. It seems as if it were yesterday we were in Colorado for the Old Fella rally. We have some wonderful memories of our fur babies don't we?
