Ronnie was one of my guys up at the Lodges.
He got very sick about a month ago and required emergency surgery to remove his spleen. A tumor on his spleen had ruptured and was bleeding into his abdominal cavity, the vets were confident that they had gotten all the visible tumor but because of the rupture, cancer cells had been leaked into his abdominal cavity and it was only a matter of time before they invaded another organ. Last Thursday he was out on a walk with Megan and a volunteer had his run mate Tina Louise, it became quickly apparent that there was something seriously wrong, so Megan scooped him up (all 60+ lbs of him) and carried him to the clinic. They euthanized him shortly after he arrived at the clinic, but he was calm and peaceful for the process. He will be dearly missed but I am happy that he is finally at peace. There is a possibility that his run mate, Tina Louise, is going to be fostered and everyone has been very concerned about how Ronnie will handle the loss. Perhaps he knew what was coming and decided to take his leave with the full moon before winter set in, saying good-bye to Tina on one last walk.
He got very sick about a month ago and required emergency surgery to remove his spleen. A tumor on his spleen had ruptured and was bleeding into his abdominal cavity, the vets were confident that they had gotten all the visible tumor but because of the rupture, cancer cells had been leaked into his abdominal cavity and it was only a matter of time before they invaded another organ. Last Thursday he was out on a walk with Megan and a volunteer had his run mate Tina Louise, it became quickly apparent that there was something seriously wrong, so Megan scooped him up (all 60+ lbs of him) and carried him to the clinic. They euthanized him shortly after he arrived at the clinic, but he was calm and peaceful for the process. He will be dearly missed but I am happy that he is finally at peace. There is a possibility that his run mate, Tina Louise, is going to be fostered and everyone has been very concerned about how Ronnie will handle the loss. Perhaps he knew what was coming and decided to take his leave with the full moon before winter set in, saying good-bye to Tina on one last walk.We also buried a little boy name Corey this week, I couldn't find a photo of him. He was only about eight months old and his death was entirely unexpected and remains a bit of a mystery. Based on the exterior signs, the vets would have guessed that he had sustained some kind of trauma - an impact or an electrocution - but he was in a run all night and there wasn't any exposed electrical wiring that he could have gotten into. The admissions staff left Wednesday night and he was fine, when they arrived in the morning, he was dead. They did x-rays, but didn't really find anything that would indicate a cause of death; they opted not to do a necropsy. From everything I have heard, he was a very sweet boy and it is a very sad loss. Most people believe that we have his sister over at the Garden, a happy, silly pup named Malibu. They didn't come in together but they both probably came out of the same area, looked almost exactly alike, sounded just like one another, and looked to be about the same age.
In the last couple of weeks we have put down several more dogs that I did not know. This is how it usually goes, as winter prepares on the horizon, dogs decide to take their leave before they have to survive another cold winter. And for those that decided to hang on a little longer, once spring rolls around and they feel the warmth again, they take pleasure in the sun and head for the Bridge. According to Lenny, one of our officiants for the placement ceremonies, the combination of the coming winter, the full moon, and the strong energies associated with October, it is not surprising that so many dogs have decided it is time to move on.
They are all wonderful in their own ways and they will each be missed for their unique characters.
(All photos copyright Best Friends Animal Society.)
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