Had to Say Goodbye to our Good Little Doggie

Our bichon, Maddie, left us last Thursday. Had she lived, she would have been sixteen this Friday. She was doing really well, despite loss of hearing and beginning cataracts, and she was still frisky enough, especially enjoying chasing after and playing with Norris, our Golden. She suddenly got really weak, barely able to stand. We took her to the vet who did a full lab workup, gave her an antibiotic injection, and a B-12 injection. But nothing worked. She got so weak we had to hold her up to potty, but she still knew enough to do that when we took her outside. We tried to feed her Ensure, as she stopped eating, but that was not successful either. We finally took her to the vet last week for the "final visit."

I'll attach a pic of Maddie, Dixie, and Norris, just four days before Maddie died. She was a sweetheart to the end. I really miss her little personality. Big ol' hole in the family right now . . .

Allen