Prince
1999-2009
D O M I N U S V O B I S C U M
His name was Prince. He is in heaven, Dogs Heaven. He was part of my family for 10 years, which in dogs years would be about 70, but he didn't look old. He passed on May 19th.
He was euthanized because he had Heart worm disease and it was so advanced that his life could not be spared. The veterinarian told my daughter that putting him "to sleep" was the best option because Prince was in pain and suffering. His blood was very thin and contained worms that practically were poisoning his entire organism.
For the last 2 or 3 weeks we were noticing that he started to look weaker and weaker. We thought that it was all because of his age and we started giving him vitamins and medication for his hips and joints. He seemed to be getting better in a few days and even started to get agressive with birds that would try to eat his food leftovers, which he had stopped doing lately.
But then sometime last week some of us noticed that he would have some sort of episode where he would just lie down and get limp, closing his eyes he would give the impression that he was feeling some painful colic or .........(I will continue or edit later)