RIP Sophie

March brought much sadness into our lives as we started out the month with our Sophie girl getting out of our yard somehow in which we still are not sure how she got out. She got out and the pound picked her up thank goodness. I immediately went to get her after discovering she was at the pound when i got off work, and rushed her to the vet to get boosters on all her shots. To our surprise just three days after receiving her shots she began to become sick. The vet swore it was just a reaction to the shots and that she'd be ok in a few days. we waited it out a day or two and it just seemed to get worse. by day three she was still vomiting and beginning to have diarrhea and she had no energy at all. all i could think of is how i didn't want to lose her because her symptoms were all of which come with the deadly puppy disease of Parvo. I cuddled with her hoping that she'd make it through and gain her energy back, but she continued to not want to eat or drink water. i even tried to force water  down her so that she could stay hydrated enough to battle the parvo, but that didnt seem to help much. :( the night of the 2nd we had let her outside because she seemed to be burning up, i could definately tell she had a temperature. She layed in the snow like she usually did but didnt want to move or do anything. when i tried to get her to come back inside she wouldnt move, i had to carry her inside. She was muddy from the wet ground and also had gotten throw up in her fur so after letting her warm up for a few minutes mikey and i gave her a nice bath to try and relax her. she was so weak and frail she had lost a lot of weight super fast she was probably half of her normal size in just three days. I was worried sick about her and had this no good feeling stuck in the bottom of my stomach. all i wanted to do is curl up with her and tell her it would be ok and try and nurse her back to health but i also felt hopeless because i didnt know how to help her. We called the vet on call and made an emergency trip to go see him. With him taking one look at her he was pretty determined that she had Parvo. As soon as he said that i burst into tears, because i then knew she probably wasn't going to make it. He did a Parvo test to confirm that she had it, we waited a few minutes for test results and it showed positive for Parvo after only a few minutes. :( He took a look at her skin and how she was so weak, and his opinion was that she probably wasn't going to make it through the night. :( He was pretty positive even with treatments and fluids that the percentage of her making it was about 5 percent. he basically gave us two options, to put her down or to bring her home to die at home.

 I hugged her in tears as i was listening to all of this, squeezing mikey's hand for comfort. We wanted a few minutes to decide what we wanted to do, so the doc stepped out for a minute. We decided it would be best for her and she wouldn't have to suffer if we just put her down. It would be so traumatic for us and Roscoe and little E if we brought her home to die. With hating having to make a decision like this we finally told the doc what we wanted to do. We both hugged her and told her we loved her so very much and that everything would be ok in a few minutes. She was already pretty much gone when we brought her in the doc kept telling us and it would be a matter of time if we wouldn't have brought her in when we did.

shaken with the fact that i just lost my baby girl Sophie i stood there hugging mikey crying. After a few minutes  i decided i needed some fresh air and stumbled out the door with mikey and scotty. All three of us were shaken up from our loss and so afraid of Roscoe and Little E would come down with the same sickening disease.

In memory of Sophie mike and i got dog tags made for our key chains since we weren't able to get her ashes.

We both love and miss her so very much and are very sad but glad that she is in a better place and out of pain. We love you Sophie girl! Forever in our hearts and always by our side. :)