Very Sad At Our House Tonight

Well, we had the very difficult task tonight of saying good-by to our black lab, Samantha. She was doing really well this morning and even into the afternoon, she enjoyed both her morning feed and afternoon feed, but around 7:oo this evening as I was in our computer room I could hear that her breathing was very loud and labor. My husband and I were concerned because it just came on so quick and we both knew that we would not be able to sleep knowing she was having trouble. We called our vet and he told us to come to the office. Well she was so weak that she could not even stand up on her own, so we had to carry her out to the car. On the way out to his office, we thought that a couple of times she was gone, but she was just resting. He could see that she was distended in her abdominal area, her temperature was way low and her gums were very light pink, all not good signs at all. He thought that a cancerous tumor had ruptured and she was full of blood or she was full of fluid, so he took her in the back room and when he came back with her, the syringe was full of blood, not a good sign. We knew going out there that it would probably not be good, but this was not what we had expected. The only right decision was to have her put down. We didn't want her to be in pain and the vet told us that she probably would not make it thru the night either. Oh, what a painful decision it was. We both stayed with her until she passed away. I don't think that we will ever have another dog like her, she was so smart, loving and just an all around great dog. She would have been 14 on April 15, she almost made it.

She was a wonderful part of our family and we will surely miss her. Mary

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