Your Pet Loss Stories

by Martin & Liz Betts
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)

We lost our lovely 9 year old Rotty Max on Sunday 14th August 2011 and we are devastated.

Max began to be ill on the Friday night for no apparent reason, we called the vet first thing Saturday morning, when he arrived he examined him, took his temperature etc but said there was nothing to worry about and would give him a shot for his sickness. He thought he may be a little constipated (which we were not happy with as he had been going to the toilet) and would return with some suppository's in the afternoon to help him, which he did.

These seemed to make no difference and by early evening Max was worse and had got himself outside to his spot and I was having a job to make him respond to me so I called the vet again. When he arrived he took one look at Max and within minutes we was loading Max into the back of the car and was on our way to the surgery. The vet tried everything and aventually stabilised him to some degree, I wanted to stop with him but the vet told me to go home and he would ring me.

About 1 am in the morning he rang me to say he was responding and had sat up and had a drink my wife and I were overjoyed, needless to say we had very little sleep with worry. Then !! the devastating news all us pet owners dread, the vet rang me at 9am Sunday morning to tell me Max had taken a turn for the worse and his heart had given up and he did not make it.

I went straight up there to see him and say my goodbyes, it was hard I still don't know what happened, we keep beating ourselves up could we have done more, should we have noticed some signs earlier. I don't feel I have had a proper explanation from our vet, I am 55 years old and have seen several sad things in my life so far but I am having a job to deal with this. My wife and I keep getting upset, we work from our home and Max was with us every minute of the day and we loved him like a child and he to was such a loving dog.

I feel better to some degree now I have been able to write this in words and I am so pleased I found this website and to all your lovely stories that you have all been through the same emotions, God Bless you all and your pets you have lost and I look forward one day to seeing our lovely Max again.