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This is very painful for me to write. Boo was euthanised late this afternoon as I stroked him and told him how much he meant to me. Last evening he returned to the vet to have an aggressively growing lump at his lymph node re-examined, and we agreed he should immediately have surgery to remove it. He hadn't been responding to medication.

 

Prior to surgery, we were expecting a diagnosis of an abscess caused by a foxtail or an impacted salivary gland, because the original histology report came back neg for malignancy. But when the vet called me post-surgery, she told me she was concerned due to necrosis that had spread to the lymph nodes and salivary glands which she described as shockingly enlarged. She confirmed that what she saw was consistent with lymphoma. This morning after much reflection, I decided to forego further diagnostic and treatment measures.

 

Some of you old-timers may recall our long journey together. I'd found him abandoned in the national forest 7 years ago, emaciated and panicked. I had adopted him with the intention of re-homing him myself when he went unclaimed for over a week at the pound. But from the first moment I brought him home, he wouldn't let anyone near me, and it became clear that re-homing him was out of the question, which and sent me into a panic. Several times he bit the self-styled Cesar Milan wannabe that a local vet had referred me to (I even have it on videotape), and quite deservedly. A few months after that I was offered the opportunity to have Cesar Milan work with him, and I declined.

 

With lots of research/reading, and generous help from knowledgeable folks on these boards and elsewhere, a couple of consults with a vet behaviorist, a short stint on psychotropic meds, he became willing to let others into his world. Folks who had seen his ferocious side were shocked at how loving and gentle he was. He was always the first to welcome my foster dogs with a play bow and game of chase me.

 

He was my devoted companion, my protector, my dancing partner, my hiking buddy, my mama's boy, my sweet wiggle butt, and despite the grief I feel over his loss, I'm so glad that fate brought us together so unexpectedly those many years ago. Rest in peace my precious boy. post-3160-054151500 1363758567_thumb.jpg post-3160-013709100 1363758574_thumb.jpg

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I am so sorry to hear about Boo. He was so fortunate to have had you in his life and it sounds like he gave you his heart and soul. He will never leave you since he lives on in your heart.

 

Run free at the Bridge Boo.

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Boo is waiting for you in another forest. And I know there'll be a dull ache in your heart until you meet him again. Bless you for giving him 7 loving years.

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I'm so sorry. You did everything you could for him, and he did everything he could for you. You changed his life when you found him that day in the forest, and I think you were the one he was waiting for. :) In time his memories will bring smiles, and eventually you will be together again. Until then, he will live on in your heart.

 

Run free, Boo.

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