I unfortunately lost very unexpectedly one of my collies, you can read about him in my website www.colliepaintings.com/etc. He was a lovely handsome gentle dog, and he suddenly got very tired on a walk, I dosed him with medication and he picked up after a couple of days, and he rallied, but then he just got bad again. I called the vet and had to carry him to the car, by the time I got there he was comatose, the vet guessed he could have internal bleeding and he was right, he died that evening before they could stabilize him to be X-rayed. I thought my heart would neve recover, and to be honest it never really has, it’s been over two years and not a day goes by without I think of him, asking myself, what did I miss’ why did I nt read any signs, I’m with my dogs 24/7 and surely I should have noticed something, We were so happy the three of us, and I went through a period of telling myself just how much so, but the bubble bursts as all bubbles do when they are highly inflated.
However that is only the start of this blog.
I was almost paranoid that I would lose my remaining dog and be left with none, as I’d never lost a dog through illness, they all just got old and died.
This is Whisper at 17.
I was browsing the net not long after Jet’s death and came a cross a website called ‘Many tears’ about a lady who goes round the pound and takes all the dogs who are on their last day back to her animal welfare home, I saw this beautiful little face looking at me and immediatley called Many Tears and asked if he was taken.
