She still kept going on though, she didn't want to stop doing things like going for walks and so on. She even still tried to get me to play games with her. She used to play a game where she has a biscuit and I have to chase her round with it. It was a very 'doggy' game that is hard to explain but it always ended up with me pretending the biscuit was after her and she would growl at it and I would do sound effects and everything (pretending they were coming from the biscuit, obviously). She still struggled along trying to get out into the garden where I used to play with her on the grass.
In the end my mum and dad took her to the vet. The vet said her legs were paralysed and there wasn't much they could do for her and there was the possibility that because she couldn't feel them she might twist something and end up in agony. Also I suppose it is hard to know how much pain she was really in, because there were times when she didn't look too good.
She had been quite happy a lot of the time and was managing to get by, mum had even found an extra harness to support her when she was out on a walk but it was getting harder for her to stand on her back legs.
When they came back from the vet and I found out what the vet had said I stroked Belle's leg to see if she could feel it and realised she really couldn't. She used to strech her toes out whenever you rubbed the top of her foot, but she didn't do that anymore. We had her for Thursday, I bought some puffed tripe to eat on the way home from work because she likes that and she had a piece. On Friday she was taken to be put down at 10:20. I said goodbye in the morning and when I came home she wasn't there anymore. It is strange and I feel as if she hasn't really gone, like she has just popped out for a little while and will be back later and occasionally I go to stroke her and she isn't there. I don't know if it has even sunk in yet.
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Sorry to hear about your loss. I've had many good friends over the years who I've since lost contact with. But I miss my family dog more than some of those people I used to be close to.
:( Poor old Belle. It's a shame when a loved pet has to go. Try to remember the good times and what a great pet she was.
Hello Factobrunt and Anonymous. Thanks for your comments. I'm missing her even more this week, I really miss giving her a hug and I keep on expecting her to be in her basket. I suppose at least she isn't in pain and must be in doggy heaven now.
I am so very, very sorry to hear this.... hope u feel better soon, and that Belle is happy wherever she is now..
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