- Sep 21, 2001
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My husband and I are house sitting for my folks this week, taking care of my dog and horse, while they're in California. The dog, Athens has had some trouble with her back legs lately on top of some other older dog health issues, but she's seemed happy still.
We worked from home yesterday because Athens isn't very happy staying by herself when we're at work. (Usually my mom and little sisters are home with her all the time.) On Friday we took her with us to my in-laws house, so she wouldn't be alone. Unfortunately, today we had to leave her during work and during an after work appointment. Afterwards, when we got home, she was missing from the completely locked yard. We looked for her everywhere we could but it was already dark and we weren't able to find her.
About five minutes after we gave up looking for the night, I heard her collar jingle and she came running (not walking) up to the house. She came in, drank some water, and lay down. Since then, she hasn't been able to stand up. We're not sure what adventure she had, but she's apparently been shot once with a pellet gun or something similar, leaving a small flesh wound in her side, lost a few nails and got a few cuts from somewhere. She's been panting like she ran a marathon for the last two hours, and is almost completely unresponsive. We managed to move her out to the garage onto her dog bed, and she was very good while we moved her, but if she's not any better by tomorrow we'll have to call a vet and have her put down.
Please pray that she'll recover at least long enough for my parents and the twins and my other sister (she's her especial dog) to come back and say goodbye to her. It's an answer to my prayer that she even came home, so we don't have to wonder what happened to her, and I'm grateful for that, but I know that losing her without a final goodbye will be very hard for the rest of my family.
Athens
Cliffs: My dog ran away, came back, and is doing very very poorly now. I may have to put her down in the morning.
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Update: She passed away naturally a few minutes after I posed this.
We worked from home yesterday because Athens isn't very happy staying by herself when we're at work. (Usually my mom and little sisters are home with her all the time.) On Friday we took her with us to my in-laws house, so she wouldn't be alone. Unfortunately, today we had to leave her during work and during an after work appointment. Afterwards, when we got home, she was missing from the completely locked yard. We looked for her everywhere we could but it was already dark and we weren't able to find her.
About five minutes after we gave up looking for the night, I heard her collar jingle and she came running (not walking) up to the house. She came in, drank some water, and lay down. Since then, she hasn't been able to stand up. We're not sure what adventure she had, but she's apparently been shot once with a pellet gun or something similar, leaving a small flesh wound in her side, lost a few nails and got a few cuts from somewhere. She's been panting like she ran a marathon for the last two hours, and is almost completely unresponsive. We managed to move her out to the garage onto her dog bed, and she was very good while we moved her, but if she's not any better by tomorrow we'll have to call a vet and have her put down.
Please pray that she'll recover at least long enough for my parents and the twins and my other sister (she's her especial dog) to come back and say goodbye to her. It's an answer to my prayer that she even came home, so we don't have to wonder what happened to her, and I'm grateful for that, but I know that losing her without a final goodbye will be very hard for the rest of my family.
Athens
Cliffs: My dog ran away, came back, and is doing very very poorly now. I may have to put her down in the morning.
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Update: She passed away naturally a few minutes after I posed this.
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