MantisGirl
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At 12:38AM on Christmas Day, I said goodbye to one of the best dogs in the world. His name was Max.
We noticed something was wrong earlier in the night, and looked up the symptoms. He was retching but nothing was coming up, he seemed to be in pain, his stomach was bloated... We found the possibility that it could be GDV, where the stomach twists.
We made an emergency call to the vet and rushed him up there. They did an did an x-ray, and found that it was indeed GDV. There was the option of surgery, but there would only be a fifty percent chance of success, and in an old dog it was even less likely. Max was twelve. We opted to have him put to sleep.
He died with his whole pack there.
Ours from September 2012 to Christmas Day 2019. We were his fourth home, and the only ones who kept him more than a few months. He spent a long time as a shelter dog before we got him.
We bury him today.
Goodbye, Max.
We noticed something was wrong earlier in the night, and looked up the symptoms. He was retching but nothing was coming up, he seemed to be in pain, his stomach was bloated... We found the possibility that it could be GDV, where the stomach twists.
We made an emergency call to the vet and rushed him up there. They did an did an x-ray, and found that it was indeed GDV. There was the option of surgery, but there would only be a fifty percent chance of success, and in an old dog it was even less likely. Max was twelve. We opted to have him put to sleep.
He died with his whole pack there.
Ours from September 2012 to Christmas Day 2019. We were his fourth home, and the only ones who kept him more than a few months. He spent a long time as a shelter dog before we got him.
We bury him today.
Goodbye, Max.
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