RIP Katie 2001 - 2015

 

Today is one of those days that every pet owner fears but must also prepare for.  I had known that Katie was not good for several months - slowly, each day, she ate a little bit less - although she did rally when I tried out different ideas for breakfast!  Truthfully, Katie was 14 1/2 years old (equivalent to being over 100 years old in human years) and so a lack of appetite is to be expected.  However this weekend she simply laid on her bed looking at me to help her and do something - I believe that she had simply had enough.

and a few years later when Millie grew up!

So I took her to the vets today, secretly hoping that he would give me some magic cure - but no such luck.  He did say that he thought there was liver failure and some form of growth in her intestine - which would account for the lack of appetite - and that the only way to be sure would be blood tests, body scans and an operation - something which I would not inflict on a dog this old.   I asked if this would be the right time to let her go - and he said that it would.  So we said our goodbyes.

 

The vets are going to contact me in a few days and we will go on our final walk and scatter Katie's ashes.  She has been a beautiful dog - well apart from the many times that, as a pup, she crawled through the hole in the fence and ran around the horse muck, with me following in my PJ's!  - and will be sorely missed - not least by Millie x