It was about this time last Saturday that everything started going down hill. I first noticed Fella bleeding at about eight O'clock and I looked at his mouth and couldn't tell much about anything because there was so much blood. At first I thought he had bitten his tongue and I figured it would stop bleeding and after a while it did.
Then about nine O'clock he started bleeding again, only this time it was much worse. Sue and I took off to the Emergency Animal Clinic in Greenville with Fella lying on the floorboard of the truck behind the front seats. It took us about 35 minutes to get there and by that time the back was covered with blood.
Once inside he was given immediate attention because of his condition. I helped place him on a cart and he was hurriedly rolled to the back where Dr. Phillips was waiting. We were shown to a private room where we waited.
After about an hour and twenty minutes Dr. Phillips came in to talk with us. She had been informed by us in filling out the papers work that Fella had been diagnosed with bone cancer about a week before so she was aware of his illness. That is when she told us what she found and that the cancer had invaded the jaw bone and it had broken and severed one of the blood vessels and she couldn't stop the bleeding without major surgery and then there would be other problems to deal with like his fractured leg and the lungs which were showing signs of cancer. She then suggested it was time to let him him go.
Sue and I were with him, holding him until the end as he slipped peacefully away to Rainbow Bridge. Fella was a special friend that had touched Sue and I in a special way because of his gentle loving nature and knowing the hardships he had been through before he came to us. It was a wonderful relationship, one that we will never forget.
2016 Ford F250 King Ranch Crew Cab 6.7 Power Stroke
2015 Montana Model 3611 with 4400 Pullrite Hitch.
Wife Sue
Pets: Rainbow Bridge: Bart, Old Fella, Levi, Charlie, Mama, Hobo, Izzie, Peaches. Others Suzie, Dixie.
Old Fella Burke County Animal Rescue