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Originally Posted by shelneese  I am so sorry as well, Eileen. We are facing that situation today. The vet is coming to our house today at 5pm. to PTS our beautiful Chama. I don't even have the words to express how incredibly sad we are. The tumor is the size of a baseball and has grown larger very quickly and it is heavy. She has been in a very good mood, eating well etc since the diagnosis and on Monday things started to turn. She was diagnosed on Feb 25th - so she is in her third month.
She has clearly given us the sign that she is ready and we are going to honor her and let her pass with dignity. She is the best, most loving and happy dog that we have ever had - we rescued her six years ago and about a year after we got her, on Halloween - she and our other dog got out of the yard and she was dognapped by some teenagers thinking that she was a breeder. We did everything we could to find her and posted rewards etc. She was gone for 10 days and the phone rang and the teens that took her offered her back to us for a ransom(she was microchipped and had a collar and tags on - but that didn't help)
I gave them all the cash i had at the time and got her back. She was so happy to be home and it took her a while to get over it and now this.
We will miss her so much. I want another Rottie, eventually - but I read that 1-3 females get OS...could that be true???
Thanks again for the opportunity to post on this forum.
shelneese(Chama's mom) |
Shelneese,
I'm so sorry to hear about Chama
... we share an experience in that my Annie (who was my brother's dog first) was stolen from him too. We got her back weeks/months later, and she took a long time to get over it too. I lost her to cancer, but not OS. But, a beloved Rottie girl, Duchess, that I loved like my own was PTS in my arms due to OS. Makes all the pain in this thread from you and so many others very real to me too.
I don't know about the one in three females, statistically. One of the three females in my life (Duchess) did have OS. My Missy is now 12. Threads like this make me look at her every day and wonder what the next day or week or month or year will bring in terms of her health. I'm tearing up now just thinking about it.
My thoughts are with you and all the rest here who are facing this awful disease or have already lost their beloved ones.