Showing posts with label miss my dog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label miss my dog. Show all posts

Sunday, October 18, 2020

My Bogie Boy

When Angel died in March, I thought I would have a couple years of solo time with Bogie since he was  only 9. He didn't need a lot of attention, which was good because Angel demanded attention. I wanted to make it up to him. 

 But it wasn't to be. What had been noticed a couple years ago as a dragging of his back feet, became more serious. Degenerative myelopathy. He began to not only drag his feet, but have trouble getting up. And standing up. 

 We tried swim therapy. And he seemed to like it.

But getting into and out of the car did more damage than the therapy helped.  

So we muddled on the best that we could.  The final straw was when he couldn't get up.  And I couldn't help him up.  The panic on his face crushed me.  He eventually did get up, but that was a portent of the end. 

On October 17, I took him in to the vet, held him close, and let him go.  


Sweet, smart, stubborn, and stoic, he is sorely missed. 

Saturday, March 7, 2020

Angel girl

 Angel was a Belgian Malinois, Great Dane mix.  A real sweetheart of a dog.  She thrived on attention and was always by my side.  Until near the end.  

By the time she was 12, her arthritis got so bad she had trouble getting up and moving around.  She let me know she was done taking walks with me and Bogie by turning around and walking off when I tried to put on her leash.  

We did laser therapy to try to ease the arthritis, but physical therapy wasn't an option.  She'd had cancer in her thigh so there wasn't much muscle to rehab. 

On March 4th I took her into the vet for her final appointment.  I took Bogie too so he could see she wasn't coming back. (That didn't work out at all). 

Letting a beloved dog go is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do.  I miss my shadow so much.  


Angel in name and demeanor. 

I calculated that I had had Angel for 10 years, 5 months, and 14 days<