mardoniche
06-12-2003, 10:41 AM
:angel:
Hello everyone,
It has been along time since I posted on the board, I hope you are all ok and that your dachsies are all well and happy.
I hate to only post when something sad has happend, but I wanted to let people know and remember Poppy. She was only four weeks old when she died, yesterday. I just needed to record her life, although short, I want people to know that she was here, and that she has left some memories behind.
And of course this is the ideal place, you are all so kind and caring, I couldnt think of a better place for people to send out some thoughts for her.
Poppy was a shaded red mini smooth, and so pretty, she was such a poppet, we called her Poppy, as red as the flower and as fragile. Poppy had a sister and a brother in her litter, all seemed well. Until yesterday I did not know that anything was wrong. I fed the puppies breakfast and lunch all was ok, until the middle of the afternoon, when I noticed that her breathing was faster than normal. I watched her for an hour, then phoned vet when she didnt return to normal. The vet asked to see her straight away.
They took some xrays of her chest and diagnosed aspiration pneumonia. I left her in the vets to have a trachial wash, IV antibiotics and bronchial dilators. At 9pm the vets called me back, she was fading fast. But thankfully I arrived at the vets in time to say goodbye, I cuddled her and told her of how she was going to the bridge where old friends would be there to take her over, and there would be no more pain, she would be so free.
She died in my arms at 9-45, and I was so grateful her pain was over. To watch a puppy gasping for every breath and crying in pain is heart breaking. I had an autopsy done, she had an aortic arch, so we could not have saved her.
I brought her home wrapped in her winnie the pooh blanket and buried her in the paddock with Hattie, our st bernard, Hattie will watch over her for me.
God bless Poppy, we all loved you.
I just wished you could have stayed longer.
Love to all those dacchsies out there, Dawn and dachsies.:angel:
Hello everyone,
It has been along time since I posted on the board, I hope you are all ok and that your dachsies are all well and happy.
I hate to only post when something sad has happend, but I wanted to let people know and remember Poppy. She was only four weeks old when she died, yesterday. I just needed to record her life, although short, I want people to know that she was here, and that she has left some memories behind.
And of course this is the ideal place, you are all so kind and caring, I couldnt think of a better place for people to send out some thoughts for her.
Poppy was a shaded red mini smooth, and so pretty, she was such a poppet, we called her Poppy, as red as the flower and as fragile. Poppy had a sister and a brother in her litter, all seemed well. Until yesterday I did not know that anything was wrong. I fed the puppies breakfast and lunch all was ok, until the middle of the afternoon, when I noticed that her breathing was faster than normal. I watched her for an hour, then phoned vet when she didnt return to normal. The vet asked to see her straight away.
They took some xrays of her chest and diagnosed aspiration pneumonia. I left her in the vets to have a trachial wash, IV antibiotics and bronchial dilators. At 9pm the vets called me back, she was fading fast. But thankfully I arrived at the vets in time to say goodbye, I cuddled her and told her of how she was going to the bridge where old friends would be there to take her over, and there would be no more pain, she would be so free.
She died in my arms at 9-45, and I was so grateful her pain was over. To watch a puppy gasping for every breath and crying in pain is heart breaking. I had an autopsy done, she had an aortic arch, so we could not have saved her.
I brought her home wrapped in her winnie the pooh blanket and buried her in the paddock with Hattie, our st bernard, Hattie will watch over her for me.
God bless Poppy, we all loved you.
I just wished you could have stayed longer.
Love to all those dacchsies out there, Dawn and dachsies.:angel: