He was fine on Sunday, we went for a lovely long walk at one of his favourite places. He was full of beans, playing with other dogs and stuff.
Yesterday morning I was having a nap and he was on my bed with me, he suddenly yelped with pain which was odd as he was just lying there. Took him to work, he seemed ok, then on the way back I thought he was sitting weirdly in the car, all kind of tucked up.
When I got home I tried to take him for a walk but he really didn’t want to go which was not like him. I gave up and carried him home. Then he was sitting on the sofa and I tried to move him over so I could sit with him but he yelped again. He stayed on the sofa for an hour or so and I noticed he was trembling, then he got down and was sitting really oddly on the kitchen floor and just didn’t look himself. I phoned the vets and they said to bring him straight in. I thought it was just going to be a case of some antibiotics or something, but when we got there she said she could feel a lot of fluid in his abdomen, and his gums were pale and paws were cold. She said he was bleeding internally, probably from a tumour. She said he would be in lot of pain and there was nothing they could do.
Then I had a few minutes with him, he was wandering around the vets room and I was in complete shock. The vet came back and gave him a strong shot of painkillers which made him sleepy pretty much straight away. And then I cuddled him and told him I loved him until he’d had the next shot and was gone.
I’m a complete mess today. Really not coping at all.