Macho Dog has gone to sleep.

Jul 28, 2015 by knixuk

Our dog, a lurcher (well whippet x jack russell) died yesterday from cancer. Some of you may recall him from years ago when we first joined the site and nicknamed him Macho dog due to defending our slut cat from a range of suitors. (She then went on to have kittens)

It has all been so quick, he had a funny turn about five weeks ago and then we discovered a lump on his side. Test results came back on Friday (took ten days!) and we were hopeful he could get on to some meds to help reduce the tumour and give him some more months. We had been told by that point it wasn't operable.

However over the weekend he took a real turn for the worse and was struggling to breath etc and then yesterday on the x-rays it showed that it had spread and he had very little lung function left. We had to let him go.

I keep wondering if we had allowed them to do a CT scan last Tuesday they may have been able to help earlier and may have still been alive. We said no to the CT scan because we were told we would probably need to wait for the lab results to come back anyway later in the week. We thought it better to wait than put him through a CT scan he may not need. I now feel like we/wonder if we made the wrong decision and he could have maybe lived for a bit longer.

He was 10.5 years old, we thought we would have him until he was around 14.

It is hard, i hope we made the right decisions but to go from well to dead in five/six weeks is just so difficult to accept.

I don't know the purpose of this post now, i just wanted to write it and let other people know of the joy he brought to our home over the last 10 years.

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Looks just like my old Lurcher, Bluey, who died at the same age :(

Sent by texty,Jul 28, 2015

I'm so sorry for your loss, Knixuk. I remember losing my rabbit, Chino, who we had for almost 9 years because of an ongoing problem he was born with. He was like family and it was really hard. :(

Sent by Yoshitomi,Jul 28, 2015

I'm allergic to most animals, So I have never had a pet,
But I know how much they mean to others and how much they become part of the family. Sorry again for your loss. :(

Sent by Catch_a_falling_star,Jul 28, 2015

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