Thor & Heidi

Mom worked in the yard today, then it got too hot.Skeeter cried the whole time she was in the front yard. He does that when he can't see her. He likes the backyard work so he can be out there too.Mom would fence in the front yard too, but it's against the rules where we live.


Last night Mom. Skeeter, and I took a walk in the rain. It wasn't raining hard but plenty hard enough to get wet.I heard Mom say once that it was romantic to walk in the rain. I think she's wrong because Dad just stayed in his recliner and watched TV.


Confidential to my human Sister. Miss Scarlett is due to have her puppies this weekend. Will keep you posted. They will eventually on the web site.





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You'd think by now I could just say that ... and... and I lived happily ever after. Not so. Thor and Heidi were about 6 and 3 respectively. They had been living the good life. They had an insulated dog house that my husband had made. They got rides in the car. Weather permitting they got walks.


One day Thor started limping. In checking it out we found a lump in his paw. Off to the vet who didn't like the looks of it, We left Thor there for a day and the vet removed it. It was cancerous and it appeared that the vet had got it all.


Heidi began to urinate in the house. Just small puddles as she would be asking to go out. We figured she had a weak bladder perhaps. The wetting got worse and Heidi was so mortified she didn't want to come in the house any more. She would lay outside and lick herself clean.


We took Heidi to the vet as there was no visible evidence of any problem. The vet pronounced her okay and gave us some medicine. I forgot what it was called but it sometimes worked on people with the same problem. Unfortunately it did not work. We tried to keep her happy by giving her several towels to lay on when she was in the house.


I don't remember how much time had passed but one day she seemed to be bothered by being wet and was licking frantically at herself. I thought maybe a warm bath would help her feel better. That's when I discovered a lump partly inside her rectum. We took her to the vet and he took a biopsy. By the time we got the results of the biopsy, the growth had reached the size of a baseball.


While we were wondering what would be our next course of action, Thor's cancer was back. He was in danger of loosing his paw. The vet gave us a dim future for Heidi.


In the meantime my husband was having serious heart problems. He had a pacemaker implant in 1989 which kept his heart going. He was having problems doing work in the cold.


Each day brought a dimmer future for both dogs. We talked to the vet and he agreed that it was only a matter of time before each one would be put to sleep. They had become inseparable.


With the vet's input, we decided to put both dogs to sleep together. We didn't think one would last much longer without the other. We wanted to spare them the agony of pain cancer would bring as well as separation.


A very caring vet put them to sleep together.


It was almost more than we could bear. We couldn't stay in the house when we weren't working. Dog dishes and toys were everywhere.We put them away.





My quote for today is by my Mom.



"I don't want any more dogs. I can't go through this again."