Cash passed during surgery. The shattered elbow required much more work than they expected. After 2 + hours of surgery she succumbed. It is a bit hard for the owner who got Cash the day after he put his last dog down. Just got off the phone with Brandon and he is pretty sad as well. I put the donate button back up just in case others want to assist.

The billing has not been settled yet. There are a few issues to sort out. The owner is very grateful for the amazing amount of donations from strangers and dog lovers. We went through a pricey unsuccessful surgery with Cloe and the combined cost and grief really hurts. Your support really helped. Thanks once again.

Oddly enough we spread some of Cloe’s ashes yesterday evening out in wilderness park. A small section I call my church now has a trail of her ashes in a path as if she was running through it just like she used to do. We brought a berry doggie muffin Theresa baked and left it out there for her to let the deer nom nom nom on. It was a sad and happy time.

We so loved our little Cloe. We are never gonna forget her and made a proper tribute to her. We hand painted the shelf in a cow spotted motif cuz she was our little dalmation cow. Her ashes are in the fancy jar our friend James gave us for our wedding, her bowl, a plushie, a book of pictures, and a nice framed set of pictures.

View more Cloe pics here

was neat cuz I got some ink and a bunch of photo paper. I can make mad pics now.

So we picked up Cloe’s ashes today. Kinda brought up how much we miss her all over again. We have been wrapped up in puppy fever, but the loss is still in our hearts.

So as you can see in the pic she is getting an awesome vessel to hang in. It was a wedding gift from our friend James. Hand blown Italian glass beauty. We got our woot shipment of photo paper today and will be printing off a bunch of Cloe pics to make a cool photo montage wall dedication for her here soon. She gonna get a shelf under the pic frame with her vessel and her custom painted bowl.

As you can prob see it aint all gonna fit. That is actually good. We were wondering what we should do with the ashes. Now we can keep some and spread the rest.
- the salt creek by our house. She loved to run around there.
- at the oak creek dog training area. She loved it there.
- At the park school soccer field.
- And a special place for me. The place I call my church, a special spot in wilderness park.

Doctor said it was the worst he had ever seen. The spleen was huge, she was filled with old blood. he worked his butt off for almost 4 hours. Said he had no clue how she was still alive, toughest little dog he had ever seen. That would be Cloe.

We are going to pick her up and take her to the overnight doggie hospital, then pick her up in the morning and take her back to the vet.

Tough little bitch.

Then we got the call. She went into cardiac arrest, they did all they could do.

Gonna miss her. Got 9 awesome years with her, and for that we feel blessed.

so they got in there and saw what was going on.
her Spleen had a massive tumor on it which caused it to rupture filling her abdomen with blood.
Her liver is mishapen which indicates whatever it is has probably spread.
They gave us the options.
We chose to have her spleen removed and have a biopsy of her liver done.
We were not going to put her down.

Thing is the internal bleeding will be stopped, but the liver we just don’t know about.
got a credit card I can borrow

at least we get some more time with her.

not sure how much I told you before so here is a small recap:

X-ray: all her internals are squished to her right side.
ultrasound: there is some large mass, almost ribbon like that was blocking the ultrasound from penetrating it to figure out what it was. It goes the length of her abdomen. Her liver looked like it had pockets of fluid that would pulse. Indicating blockage or pockets of fluid. prob not tumors or cysts cuz they were fluid. lots of fluid built up in her abdomen.
Her red blood cell count was 24% when it should be 34% or higher. Basically she was anemic and her gums were pale.
that was all thursday. We put her on steroids to build her red blood count back up.

friday to currently, she is good as normal. Her color is back the fluid that made her plump has gone down. She does not seem bloated. Basically it seems she is just fine.

Thing is she still has some huge mass in her. She goes in tues morning for exploratory surgery. They gonna cut her open and see what is going on in there. It is pointing to it being her spleen that is messed up cuz her red blood cell count keeps fluctuating. They can remove it and she will be just fine. The bad things are if it is a tumor that is wrapped around important arteries or organs there is nothing they can do.

She is going to go in for surgery tuesday. Got to get in there and see what the mass in her is.

She is 61 in dog years and she has some mass in her. it is pushing all her organs and stuff to one side.
We got an ultrasound done and her liver looks a little messed up as well. It might be her spleen, or a tumor, or something else. Whatever it is it is big, dense, and she is filled with fluid.

She is anemic, her red blood count is low at 24%. It should be around 34% and at 15% she will not function. This kinda points to it being her spleen. We can do exploritory surgery and they can remove the spleen if it is the problem. Thing is we do not know if she would survive the surgery cuz of her anemia. If it is a tumor or something else wrapped up in arteries and whatnot it would be too hard to remove.

She is currently on steroids to help her get that blood count up higher. We just really do not know what to do currently. It is not the money, it is the time we can still be with her.

She is doing much better today. Got that smile and pooped full of energy and we will just see.
Prob gonna go to the vet and ask a few more questions.

she has been a little frumpy every now and then. She just refuses to move, eat, poop or pee. Took her into the vet last week to try and figure it out.

Well this morning it was pretty bad. Took her to the vet once again. They took some X-rays and it looks questionable. It is like most of her organs are pushed to one side. Thinking a tomor, enlarged spleen, or some other organ. She was really pale as well.

So they gonna keep her for a bit and do an ultrasound to get a better picture of what is going on in there. Cloe is 61 in dog years, so we really do not know what we are going to do. Guess we will see what the Doc says.

Our little cow Cloe went to the vet today cuz she has been acting strange off and on for a few weeks now. Figgured have the vet look under the hood. So far everything is good. Will get the blood work back by friday. But I have to collect a sample. This is gonna be fun. And oh yeah I will be sure to get it on film.