Sadie

We had to put our beloved Sadie Louise to sleep on December 7th. She ended up with Congestive Heart Failure. She woke mom up the Tuesday night before with this crouppy cough. We took her to the vet on Wednesday and he took a bunch of x-rays. From the x-rays he could tell that her heart was enlarged and there were pockets of fluid on her lungs. Her coughing was her body's way of trying to cough out the fluid which didn't work. He gave us 2 medicines. One was to remove the fluid from her body and one was for her heart. Thursday she was still coughing but doing ok. Friday morning she woke up and was not hungry. That's when we knew something was wrong! She was always hungry! I put the pills in Peanut Butter (which she loves!) and ended up putting the peanut butter way back in her mouth so she would have to eat it. She would just sit and had this heavy panting. By 11:00 a.m. mom made the decision that we would put her to sleep. We called the vet but the only opening he had was for 6:30 that evening. By the time we got there her blood pressure was so low that he had a hard time finding a vein. She is in doggie heaven now and we miss her a lot! Mom still cries some but is doing better.