My thoughts are with you as you face your dog's problems. I have a small yellow Lab who is going on 18 years old. She and my other dog and cats have heated boxes (six of them) in my machine shed and garage in the winter. In early February on a Friday the Lab was almost motionless and unresponsive in her heat box. I thought it probably was time for her to go, but I carried her to a larger heat box and watched her for a day. No change, so I created yet another heat area for her to make it easier to monitor her. She still looked bad Monday, so I arranged for a vet to come out to put her down on Wednesday. (She has anxiety seizures when she goes to my regular vet and I didn't want to put her through that.) But lo and behold, Tuesday morning she raised her head, drank a little and ate part of a can of dog food. She didn't seem in pain or distress, so I canceled her execution to give her a few more days if she had them in her. Now, it's two months later, winter has become spring, and she's still plugging along. On sunny days she lies in the sun; she eats up to three large cans of dog food and a few slices of bread (which she loves) each day; she pees and poops regularly. She has a pronounced limp on her left front -- arthritis, fatty tumor or cancer, I'm not sure which. But she totters around the property when she's not sleeping and doesn't seem to be in pain except for the limp. Two charts at the vet's office compare dog years and human age, and she is off both charts -- I figure about 101 if a human; I'll be limping at 101 too. I know how hard it is to lose a dear pet, and I'm so happy she at least made it into warm weather to enjoy a few more days or weeks. I doubt she'll see another winter, but who knows?
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