From: "Randy" 

I just had to put my junior cat Chaos down last Thursday. His abdomen
balloned up-cancer.

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
news:430102a4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Thought I'd bring everyone to closure on this situation from several
> months
> ago...
>
> The one dog that survived has recently been given a full clean bill of
> health by the vet.  Tracy carefully monitored the dog and her condition,
> fed
> her the appropriate medications, and just 2 weeks ago, the vet said that
> the
> latest blood tests showed normal clotting times.
>
> Then this morning, she was in Alabama at her boyfriends home, and went
> outside and found her remaining dog dead...below is the email I got from
> here just a few minutes ago....
>
> Hi Glen,
>
> Thank you for the email.
>
> God, I am just devastated. Talk about taking the wind out of one's sails.
> Finding Spencer dead this morning about killed me. After all she went thru
> to survive her ordeal and now this....
>
> The vet called just awhile ago and said it appears that there was no foul
> play this time, no indications of any poison - however, he did say her
> stomach was flipped (basically had gotten twisted) This is a fairly common
> thing in large dogs, in fact I lost another lab to this same thing when I
> was a little kid.
>
> Spencer was not a jumper though so it comes as very shocking that she
> could
> flip her stomach. She was acting very nervous this weekend though, which I
> think was either due to the medication she was on or was a seizure or
> something. The vet said that quite often if a dog actually survives rat
> poisoning, they can get epilepsy... so maybe she had a seizure which
> caused
> her stomach to flip????
>
> I just don't know. It's all so unreal and so dreadful and painful. I can't
> even imagine coming home to an empty house from now on. It was awful
> enough
> without little Stormy tearing around - now it's just going to be
> unbearably
> quiet and lonesome without either of my girls!!!!!!!
>
> Anyway, she is going to be cremated as well and I still have Stormy's
> ashes,
> so I'll put both of them to rest together. God, how awful to say such a
> thing. I just have to ask WHY!? How could God take both my baby
> girls????????
>
> I will try to be back in the office tomorrow.... I have a lot to take care
> of and maybe it will keep my mind off things.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> T
>
> Sad.
> --
>
> Glenn M.
>
>
>

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