Dog with kidney failure - urgent

[scumbalina]

Thanks guys. I'm just finding it really hard being at home, everything reminds me of him. I had a good clean to make it feel less like the place he died and more like the place he lived (there was sick everywhere and the syringes we'd been feeding him with, I just scrubbed the floors and washed everything and howled and howled ) and I think that helped a little, but I can almost still feel him, how soft his fur was, the way he'd snuffle behind your back with his wet nose if you hid a treat, how I could burrow my face in the nook behind his ear if I felt sad, or how whenever I sat down he'd jump straight up next to me and flop down heavily with his head on my lap...I can't believe I'll never get to snuggle him again

 

[weltweit]

So sorry to hear your dog didn't make it.

When you were describing how you were looking after him I thought hey!! when I am ill (if) I want scumbalina looking after me too !!

Its hard to lose a pet in such a way but the truth is we have to make the most of people and pets while they are alive because none of us last for ever. It does not sound as if he suferred which is a mercy, indeed our cat who died from kidney failure just slowly got weaker and weaker until the end.

Sad news. Hope you have plenty of photographs etc to help remember him by.

 

[scumbalina]

When you were describing how you were looking after him I thought hey!! when I am ill (if) I want scumbalina looking after me too !! .

Awww, what a lovely thing to say, thank you

. It does not sound as if he suferred which is a mercy, indeed our cat who died from kidney failure just slowly got weaker and weaker until the end.

Yep, I think that's what's keeping me from being a total wreck, in reality it was only the last few hours when he really went down hill, he had a wal before bed and was quite bouncy. From a totally selfish point of view I'd want him to be around for as long as possible, but the way he went was as good as it could have been, better he went earlier but easier I guess

Sad news. Hope you have plenty of photographs etc to help remember him by.

Loads, and video footage too, but not up to it yet. Have managed to look at a few photos on my phone just to avoid putting it off, wasn't as hard as I thought it would be thank god.


I'm never ever ever getting another dog

 

[Lungs]

i dunno if you got the pm i just sent. i have no idea how to work any of this stuff... Ugh, i'll post it here instead:
so sorry.... you don't know me, and i don't know you... i've just started lurking and posting over here... read your thread and i am so very sorry for what you are going through right now. I know what it's like. It is the worst part of having pets. You did the right thing, taking such good care of your friend. I am very sorry. Hang in there.
{{{hugs}}} from dutchyland

 

[cesare]

Aw, scumbalina, I had a little grit in the eye earlier. Brings back memories of loved pets and their passing. Hope you're ok as you can be x

 

[blues]

I'll never know if we made all the right choices,

I keep thinking I should be feeling okay and everyone must think I'm nuts as he was just a dog,

I don't mean to be harsh, but from the moment you posted he had only 30% kidney function the outlook was grim. You did everything you could so far as the posts on here show, to ensure he was getting any help that would make him feel better and improve his last days and I can't think of anything else you could have done. Treatment (such as the drip you mention) may have given him a few extra days, but do you really think being on a drip at the vets was preferable to a few less days at home being hand-fed and cuddled? I know which I'd choose.

Anyone who has dogs understands totally how you feel, it's not "just a dog", it's "your" dog whose place in your life is irreplacable, but as with any loss of a family member, it does get better and yes you will get another dog - when you're ready. It won't replace this one, it will just continue the legacy this one and the current one have of keeping you well-trained dog owners

 

[Strumpet]

So so sorry to hear your boy passed away scumb...

I know exactly how you feel hun. It's SO hard in the beginning. My gorgeous boy died same way. Kidneys. Quite quickly, few years back now. Died at home (am glad of that too) after back n fore the vets a few times and with me having to administer meds n food and letting him sleep with me on my bed after years of training not to. Didn't care. I wanted him near me all the time and I'm glad I did that because we had some snuggly last moments.....
Left his buddie (our other dog, still with us). I missed him so badly. Other dog behaved strangely for about a week, I was beginning to worry about her mental health but...she perked up and hasn't looked back since. She has come out of her shell more tbh. Weird eh.....
I think you always wonder if you did the right thing. I did too for a little while but....looking back I know I did right.

Miss him still (he was my first proper pet and helped me through one of the worst times in my life. We had a very special bond) but life moves on....and it gets easier. I promise.


(((the scumb's and other doggy)))

 

[equationgirl]

So sorry to hear about your doggy, scumbalina. It's obvious from your posts that he was very loved and looked after. You gave him the best possible life he could wish for, and you got to say goodbye to him.

{{{scumbaline & mr s & second doggy}}}

 

[scumbalina]

Thanks all, am feeling a bit more human today although waking up to snow (which he adored) was hard.

No blues, that's not harsh, it helps to think it was inevitable and it all happened as quickly as possible, I think the thing I'm avoiding facing is that the second vet said there was a chance it was caused by an infection that would be treatable, which the first vet hadn't checked for, but I guess we'll never know.

Strumpet, your situation sounds so similar, thanks for letting me know your other doggy's doing okay now, I hope mine does too

 

[Rohen]

Sorry to hear this

Hugs

 

[8den]

Scumblina.

Our dog Dinny died last January, he ate something in the graveyard behind our park, and got ill. He fought for two weeks, (brave little fella was six months old) and passed away. We did everything and spent a fortune, and agonised over every decision. But when the autopsy came back it turn someone, some bastard, had laid a poison in bone, and it killed him. He never had a chance, he was dead the moment he swallowed the meat.

My point is scumblina you can kill yourself agonising over ever decision, and it will just slay you. It took me months to accept the anger and guilt (if I hadn't taken him walking there that morning).

You gave him a good home, you loved him, he knew it, he died in his home surrounded by his pack. Thats all that matters.

 

[scumbalina]

Thanks guys

God 8den that's heartbreaking, as time passes and I feel a bit better I realise that we were so lucky that he had a happy life and went as peacefully as possible, I'm sure it will get easier in time

 

[equationgirl]

It does get easier with time, but in the meantime be nice to yourself. You've lost a very dear part of your family.

 

[geminisnake]

Sorry to hear about poochy scumbalina

Hope you're all adjusting as well as possible and getting used to the space he left, which WILL get smaller with time