In Memory
Fieldfines Celebration
"SADIE"
May 28, 2007 - December 14, 2007
It is with a very sad heart that I am posting this in hopes to help anyone else that may experience this with there puppy or dog
Unfortunately GSP's like to chew sometimes and you must really monitor what they play with or get ahold of
The Loss Of Sadie is a very deep one for both us as the breeders and for the family who loved her so very much!! She was taken so very young and we will all miss her more than words can say......
January 3, 2008
Hello Dorothea,
We have very bad news about Sadie. We had her spayed on December 7th. That evening after we picked her up from the vet’s office she was, of course, still drugged and very lethargic. Saturday morning she seemed to bounce back until she ate around noon. She threw up all her food and continued to vomit several more times and showed no interest in eating or drinking anything. By this time, we were very worried and we ended up taking her to the emergency vet hospital. The emergency vet took blood tests and put her on IV’s. Her tests came back normal and things started to look up the next day when we picked her up. They thought at that time she was just having difficulty from the surgery. However, once she was home she began to get weak again because she wasn’t eating anything we offered, so we took her back to the emergency room and they put her on IV’s again. When we picked her up on Monday morning, we took her directly to our regular vet’s office and had them examine her. They sent her home with some anti-nausea medicine and medicated puppy food. On Tuesday (12/11), I decided to get another opinion from a veterinarian that I have known for a long time. We covered her history and what had occurred over the past weekend. They ran X-rays and everything else trying to figure out what the problem was. We decided to leave her in their intensive care unit so they could monitor her and watch for any signs that would point to what was wrong. But, then she took a turn for the worse again on Friday morning. The vet decided to perform exploratory surgery and he found a piece of unraveled cloth, which he kept for me to see, that had perforated her intestines by the pancreas.
The Vet called while she was still under anesthesia from the exploratory surgery and suggested we go ahead and put her down that Friday (12/14), because they could not do anything about all the damage the cloth material had done. It had perforated her intestines in several places and my vet told me the chances she would survive were about 1%. We didn’t want her to suffer for several more days and lose her later. That was the hardest thing I have ever had to do and we are devastated over this. The cloth material doesn’t match anything we have around here, so I am not sure where she got it from. I don’t know if it blew in the back yard or what happened. My vet told me he has only seen 3 cases like this in 30 years, where the animal had to be put down. I am so very sorry to have to send you this E-mail. I waited until after the New Year, because I didn’t want to ruin your holidays like it ruined ours. We just thought you should know the truth. We did everything we could for her and spent a fortune trying to save her. We loved that little girl SO much and we will miss her forever.
We were fooled because we thought at first this had something to do with the spaying. She was so healthy beforehand. We took her to the second vet because we had a feeling something was seriously wrong and the origianl vet didn’t seem as concerned as we were. The vet who performed who performed the exploratory surgery ordered a barium test and her X-rays from that came out fine. Well, we know now, that’s because it was a cloth material. Nothing showed up on her X-rays and everything passed.
We never realized how badly toys could harm dogs or a piece of cloth for that matter. Out of all the dogs we’ve owned and cared for this was something that never happened or that we’d heard of before… BUT now it will forever haunt and remind us how fragile they really are.
When God calls little puppies to dwell with Him above,
We humans always question the wisdom of His love.
For no heartache can compare with the loss of one small 'child',
Who does so much to make this world seem wonderful and mild.
Perhaps God tires - always calling the aged to His fold,
And so He picks a rosebud before it can grow old.
God knows how much we need them and so He picks but few;
To make the land of heaven more beautiful to view.
Believing this is difficult, yet somehow we must try,
For the saddest word that mankind knows will always be "good-bye".
And so when little pups depart;
We, who are left behind, must realize how much God loves puppies....
For angels are hard to find.
Author Unknown
