rachlynn1987
01-08-2016, 08:13 AM
So my cushing's baby Reese, passed away on January 4th. I'm so upset to say that he passed before his time was up even though he was having many health issues and may not have had long.
Without getting into the long version, here is what I'm trying to wrap my head around still...
On the 4th, my boyfriend and I had to return to work after having the days from Christmas Eve through New Years Day off. Reese had a fairly intense case of pancreatitis over the holidays so I pretty much took him everywhere with us and this was his first day back with the pack in a sense. The pack consists of Reese, Doxbee (an 8 year old doxie/beagle mix), and Tucker (an 11 year old basset). I left a webcam on so that I could keep an eye on him as he had slipped on some ice and was limping on one of his legs.
Toward noon, my boyfriend stopped by to check on the dogs. Everything seemed good although he said Reese seemed a little out of it - he thought he was just groggy as he had been resting.
An hour later, all hell broke loose on the webcam. It started in a corner that I couldn't see so I'm not sure how it started but when the dogs came into view I could see Reese was on the ground underneath Tucker making injured noises while Tucker and Doxbee went after him. After about 15 seconds of being frozen in horror, I left work.
I called my boyfriend on my way home (I work 35 minutes from home) and he got to the house about 5-10 minutes later, he says Tucker was in the backyard and Doxbee still had Reese in her mouth still and it she was still being somewhat aggressive with his body although she let him remove the body with no trouble.
I took the body to the vet who said that she could see no real puncture wounds and he didn't appear to have any type of spinal injury. While I was at the vet, my boyfriend's parents came to the house and picked up the dogs and took them to their home (which they have been to before). They kept them for several days. That same night, my boyfriend's mother was petting Doxbee while her dog, a two year old Airedale, watched. After a minute or so, the Airedale went over tried to push Doxbee out of the way. They snapped on each other and started to bite. His mother tried to grab her dog's collar and Doxbee bit her hard enough that she had to get 3 stitches.
The dogs came home last night but I'm personally a little fearful of them at this point and all I see when I look at them is what they did to Reese - I feel like such a failure and terrible person for letting this happen to Reese. None of these dogs were new (Doxbee is newest to the pack and she has been with us since December 2014) and hadn't been aggressive other than getting grumpy over food which we don't give them when they're around one another. I'm just so confused, sad, and angry. I feel like I'll never be able to love these dogs again...maybe I'm wrong but I just don't know...
Without getting into the long version, here is what I'm trying to wrap my head around still...
On the 4th, my boyfriend and I had to return to work after having the days from Christmas Eve through New Years Day off. Reese had a fairly intense case of pancreatitis over the holidays so I pretty much took him everywhere with us and this was his first day back with the pack in a sense. The pack consists of Reese, Doxbee (an 8 year old doxie/beagle mix), and Tucker (an 11 year old basset). I left a webcam on so that I could keep an eye on him as he had slipped on some ice and was limping on one of his legs.
Toward noon, my boyfriend stopped by to check on the dogs. Everything seemed good although he said Reese seemed a little out of it - he thought he was just groggy as he had been resting.
An hour later, all hell broke loose on the webcam. It started in a corner that I couldn't see so I'm not sure how it started but when the dogs came into view I could see Reese was on the ground underneath Tucker making injured noises while Tucker and Doxbee went after him. After about 15 seconds of being frozen in horror, I left work.
I called my boyfriend on my way home (I work 35 minutes from home) and he got to the house about 5-10 minutes later, he says Tucker was in the backyard and Doxbee still had Reese in her mouth still and it she was still being somewhat aggressive with his body although she let him remove the body with no trouble.
I took the body to the vet who said that she could see no real puncture wounds and he didn't appear to have any type of spinal injury. While I was at the vet, my boyfriend's parents came to the house and picked up the dogs and took them to their home (which they have been to before). They kept them for several days. That same night, my boyfriend's mother was petting Doxbee while her dog, a two year old Airedale, watched. After a minute or so, the Airedale went over tried to push Doxbee out of the way. They snapped on each other and started to bite. His mother tried to grab her dog's collar and Doxbee bit her hard enough that she had to get 3 stitches.
The dogs came home last night but I'm personally a little fearful of them at this point and all I see when I look at them is what they did to Reese - I feel like such a failure and terrible person for letting this happen to Reese. None of these dogs were new (Doxbee is newest to the pack and she has been with us since December 2014) and hadn't been aggressive other than getting grumpy over food which we don't give them when they're around one another. I'm just so confused, sad, and angry. I feel like I'll never be able to love these dogs again...maybe I'm wrong but I just don't know...