Sad news

Dawnville Enough And To Spare

*24-05-1996 - †17-04-2009

Last Friday we had to say farewell to another of our oldies. Totally unexpected and in such a short time after we had lost our beloved Mister Magoo of Blue Tails.

Kayla started to show signs of not being well on Wednesday, she refused to eat in the evening which is not really something for her.
On Thursday morning she was back to her food again but still showed like if she was not feeling well. Late afternoon she started to bleed from her vulva and we thought that maybe after 3 years she started a season again but the males were not interested and after a couple of more hours the bleeding got worse.
We knew this was not normal and Kayla had a slight fever. We phoned the vet and could go and see him first thing on Friday morning.
The outcome was devastating: there was a tumor in her bladder that erupted and caused massive bleeding, according to the vet it must be very painful and there is nothing we could do about it. He advised us to put her to sleep.

We needed some time to get used to the idea and took her home but asked the vet if he could come over at our place later that day to put her to sleep.
Kayla went with me in the afternoon for her daily walk and had a great time barking and chasing the others although I could see it must have hurt her to walk.
When we got home I fed the dogs and she ate without hesitation, it was so hard to know this was her last meal and it had been her last walk....

Kayla was put to sleep at 20:00 hours because we knew it was the best thing to do but it never gets any easier....

We have 3 more dogs older than 12 years of age but hope it will take a very long time before we have to say goodbye to another one of them.
Two in a little over 2 months time is just too much.