Death of Longtime Pets

This last February we were faced with some unexpected news and the need to make a very quick and painful decision. Our 12 year old miniature American Eskimo was acting sluggish and we took her to the vet. The news came back from the vet that she was quite ill and we needed to take her to an emergency clinic. We did so immediately and once there, the doctor and staff did an ultrasound. They found several spots on her organs and a large mass on her kidney. We could have left her in their care for several days to do some immediate treatments, but she would still have needed a biopsy, and the prognosis of recovery from the cancer did not seem very good. We made a very painful and very quick and unexpected decision to say goodbye to her that day at the emergency clinic. We were heartbroken. We also had a 15 year old male Eskimo at home that we knew would soon be in a situation for us to make a decision to put him to rest. That decision came just a month after losing the 12 year old female. Even when you expect to say goodbye to a pet, it is never easy, but to lose two within a month, when they had been with me since they were just a couple months old, was doubly tough. We have both of them resting in our backyard with newly planted trees/shrubs, and will remember them always.