by Suzanne
My Penny passed away yesterday. She had, in the last month or so, had three quite
serious seizures. We were able to "get her
back" after the first two, but not after the last one. She became demented and
distressed, walking in circles for hours, bumping into
walls, she couldn't stop, after large doses of sedation. She spent her last night in the
Vet's "hospital", to see if an anaesthetic would
bring her back to being Penny. It didn't; and she was the same the next morning. We
had to let her go; but we are devastated.She
came from the RSPCA (local animal shelter) 16 years ago, a tiny puppy. She was a
beautiful Border Collie/Kelpie (Australian),
and her nature was such that she loved everyone and especially us. Neighbours all fell
for her, in a quiet dead-end street, everyone
would stop if Penny was out there to give her a cuddle. She was happy, alwats smiling.
But on Thursday morning, it was clear that
we had lost Penny, really after the last seizure; I don't think she knew us any more. My
husbamd picked her up from the Vet's,and
she is buried in a lovely spot in our beautiful garden. But I wonder why she had to go
now. When we took her to the Vet's hospital
for the last time, she was hysterical, and we couldn't hold her. I think she knew,
regardless of how lost our Penny really was. But
after the anaesthetic (the only way she could be sedated and calmed and undistressed.
The notion was that she might wake up her
normal self, but it wasn't to be. She was, according to the vet, in a state of advanced
senility, snd no-one could reach her. And we
couldn't condemn her to a life like that. It was a privilege to have Penny in our world,
especially for so long. She was known to turn
her nose up at fillet steak, and my friends want to be reincarnated as my dog, for she
"ate better that tneir kids". She was the love
of our lives, and always will be. And at least she is "at home", and I hope at peace. Until
we meet again ... be at peace, our gentle
spirit, for we loved you so very much.
Suzanne