Kidney failure
I haven't been on for a while my special girl Sally was diagnosed with kidney failure 2 weeks ago she has no concentration in her urine and the vet has told me her bloods are off the scale,she has been given a few months to live before she will need to be PTS,I am devastated she is just 2 years old,she has been put on a renal diet and is having weekly vet appointments,she is so tired sleeping for 90% of the time and since she was admitted to the vets she is afraid of everything,the vet seems to think she feels vulnerable as she is so unwell,she went outside a few days ago and was petrified of a spider a few months ago she would of stamped on it and eaten it.Looking back the symptoms were there from being a puppy she drank a lot I also I could not get her dry through the night I have always had to put 2 puppy pads down at night,I used a different vet when she was a pup and I did mention the drinking and weeing through the night and he told me it was nothing to worry about,she is comfortable at the moment but we are all heartbroken
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There's hardly anything comforting one can say in this situation. Takes me back immediately to the time when our last dog was leaving us. She actually became 14 years old. But she was sick for a long time and during her last days also suffered from kidney failure. We had seen A LOT of suffering with her. She was such an angel! We loved her to pieces.
The only thing comforting for us was the fact that we were able to spend a lot of time with her during her last days and she was curled into my husband's arms when she died. He was her one and only! We found a doctor who came to our home when her time had come and helped her go to sleep forever, so she did not have to suffer and could go to sleep in the calm and comforting environment she always knew.
The only thing I can tell you: Enjoy the time you still have left with her.
She has a great home, a caring family and she is loved. Even though it will be short, her life was good because of you! She knows and feels that and she probably feels most comfy at home around you now.
For us, that moment of having to say goodbye hurt even more than thinking ahead of it had already. Actually still hurts today, even though she has left us almost six years ago now.
But even though we hated to have our hearts aching so badly at the same time this is proof that there is a real connection and that she was a great part of the family and in some way always will be. She will live on in your memories. I could never forget our little angel.
I feel so sorry for you and I wish you a lot of strength now!
She is happy if someone is sitting at the side of her on the sofa so we have a rota everyone is taking turns sitting with her,she is eating small amounts every couple of hours
I am so sorry to hear about your Bullie and pray her time left with you will be peaceful and loving.
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The gap she leaves will likely grow, it will need to be filled soon. But first your hearts need to heal a little and you have to handle your grief by figuring out how to integrate the memory of her in your life. I was not able to look at videos of our last dog for a very long time, even when we already had another dog. But I kept it all and today it feels good to see her photo in the living room every day. Today I am just happy that she was part of our family and truly enriched our life.