I can't believe it's taken me so long to be able to post this,
2 weeks ago we lost our German Shepherd x Rottweiler, Zeus, to penis cancer...
almost a year to the day to when we lost our malamute to bone cancer too...
Zeus had a good innings, we adopted him at 9 when his family moved to iraq. at age 13, we noticed that his bladder was dripping when he walked. up until this point he was 100% healthy, consistently outrunning 2 year old boarder collies at the dog park. age didn't seem to slow him down. took him in to the vet, and a long story short, a small tumour was in his urethra. it was removed, but in the 4 days it took to get the biopsy results back, it had returned, twice the size of the original, and several other tumours were present up to his bladder.
we made the hardest call, to send him to rainbow bridge...
He was one of those dogs that just feels like he'll always be there. even now when i get home from work i half expect him to greet me at the door to make the day brighter. He took a special shining to the
, and he was the dog that taught her about that special, unconditional bond that the really special dogs in our lives share with us. even at the age of 13, i would have pittied any person that threatened her in his presence...
So Zeus, our mate, our protector, till we we meet on the other side, our lives will feel that little bit more empty without you, but have been infinitely better for having shared this time.
2 weeks ago we lost our German Shepherd x Rottweiler, Zeus, to penis cancer...
almost a year to the day to when we lost our malamute to bone cancer too...
Zeus had a good innings, we adopted him at 9 when his family moved to iraq. at age 13, we noticed that his bladder was dripping when he walked. up until this point he was 100% healthy, consistently outrunning 2 year old boarder collies at the dog park. age didn't seem to slow him down. took him in to the vet, and a long story short, a small tumour was in his urethra. it was removed, but in the 4 days it took to get the biopsy results back, it had returned, twice the size of the original, and several other tumours were present up to his bladder.
we made the hardest call, to send him to rainbow bridge...
He was one of those dogs that just feels like he'll always be there. even now when i get home from work i half expect him to greet me at the door to make the day brighter. He took a special shining to the
, and he was the dog that taught her about that special, unconditional bond that the really special dogs in our lives share with us. even at the age of 13, i would have pittied any person that threatened her in his presence...So Zeus, our mate, our protector, till we we meet on the other side, our lives will feel that little bit more empty without you, but have been infinitely better for having shared this time.
i had her for 14 years.. it hard to lose your best pal of that long. i'm sorry for your loss.
to the good times!
