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I woke up this morning and my poor, poor dog is dead. He wasn't well yesterday (refused his breakfast!) so went to the vets and he was given an antibiotic shot as he was running an infection. Didn't perk up by evening so rang the vets back and booked another appointment for today but we were talking about him going to the RVC. I so regret that I didn't take him last night but was worried about driving there in the bad weather - main road closed so would have had to do back roads in the dark - but was fully expecting to head up there today.

I slept downstairs with him but he must have gone outside for a pee and I found him dead in the garden. I wasn't even with him when he died.
 
I am so sorry, it must have been such an awful shock. I once came down to find our dog had died in her sleep with no warning, that was bad enough.
Try to take some comfort from the fact that he was only feeling unwell for a short time and the end was quick. It sounds like a heart problem which I doubt a trip outlast night would have helped. And at least you are safe.
 
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This is the last photo of him - he'd found a teddy on his walk and carried it all the way home. Only gave it up for a pigs ear...a standard treat wasn't good enough. The crematorium has just collected him as he was too big to get into my car to take him myself. I just can't believe he's gone. He was only 6. Now I have to start telling the other people who loved him like his dog walker.
 
So sorry to read this. Very sudden and upsetting to lose a young dog like that. My heart goes out to you. We lost our girl very suddenly in August. She was a little older, but it was such a shock as she was totally fit and bounding about just a few days prior :(
 
I'm an absolute mess - so many tears and so much snot. I've lost many animals over the years and cried over them all. This is the first where I haven't had to make the call - say to the vet, yes PTS - and I really thought that if they went at home it would be easier but the shock is terrible. As is the guilt, why didn't I spot how ill he was? Why didn't I take him to the RVC? THey have an ICU, could they have saved him with a drip/better antibiotics? All the whys. Then the logistics of moving a 50kg plus body. He was in the garden getting rained on, cold and stiff. That's not comfortable in his bed is it? The bloke from the crematorium was lovely but it still took took a bit of manhandling to get him out. I know my handsome boy didn't care at that point nor that I forgot to send his favourite toy with him but I'm in bits about it.

All the above is very self indulgent and pointless right now. I'm not usually so pathetic. I keep looking for him, waiting for him to come in the dog flap and try and dry himself on my legs, being soooo pleased with himself if he managed to sneak up on me to do it. Trying to grab the towel when I dried him. Lying at my feet on his back so I could rub his belly with my foot. Just being here.
 
Someone I know had a Russian Black Terrier. He was his police dog, they retired together. He was only 8 had just had his breakfast and was found dying short time later. PM showed a pancreatic tumour bleed. That dog was apparently fit and healthy up to then. Happens all too often and such a shock when it does.
I am so sorry for you and your poor dog. Take care of yourself.
 
Errin Paddywack said:
Someone I know had a Russian Black Terrier. He was his police dog, they retired together. He was only 8 had just had his breakfast and was found dying short time later. PM showed a pancreatic tumour bleed. That dog was apparently fit and healthy up to then. Happens all too often and such a shock when it does.
I am so sorry for you and your poor dog. Take care of yourself.
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My 14 yr old epileptic brown Lab bitch died of the same thing. Fit and well one morning, then seemed to be having an extended seizure, taken to vets, where they kept her to investigate. Ruptured pancreatic tumour was diagnosed and she was pts immediately.
 
It must be so awful for you. Right now nothing anyone can say will help but you have him a good life. I doubt any thing would have saved him if he went so quickly.
He didn't have the stress of being in the vets. Don't beat yourself up.
 
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