Bad News, Sad News, At Least It Comes With A Cute Video News

[attackfish]

We just found out that my mother's dog Solo, who is a sweet old lab/border collie mix with kidney disease and failing joints, has inoperable cancer of the mouth. Well, actually, we already knew he had cancer, but yesterday, we found out that there was nothing we could do. The only "good" news, if you can call it that, is that the vet says that it's a fifty-fifty chance that his kidneys will go first. This is on top of my grandmother's puppy dying last week while she was being spayed. Her heart just stopped. She was eleven months old, and otherwise perfectly healthy. Plus, she was the daughter o one of my grandmother's other dogs, who had belonged to a breeder before my grandmother got her. So my grandmother dragged us down to a little town a couple hours away to adopt another puppy from a local rescue, who she gave the same name as the one who just died, Shu Shu. Which is a little morbid, but she's Grammy's dog. Mom and I have taken to calling her Shu Shu Two, or Goody Two Shus.

So needless to say, I'm a little bummed, so I recorded this video of my mom's maltese/dachshund, Suzy closing her eyes every time I rub her belly and opening them every time I stop.

Comments

[lalunatique.livejournal.com]

Aww, so sorry to hear. You talked about being a caregiver for numerous animals, and it's never easy to give love and then end up losing a friend. But at least d'awwww cute dog! I love how she's all "hey, we had a really good thing going. What's the rush?" every time you take your hand away.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I know it's what you sign on for when you adopt a pet, but it doesn't make it hurt less. The one kind of good thing is according to the vet, he's probably going to go from comfortable to dead pretty quickly. He won't linger and be in pain.

That little girl is the most spoiled little creature on the planet. She begs for foot massages. She has a favorite dress. That look she's giving me is "Why did you stop? Did I tell you you could stop?"