We said goodbye to Dizzy today

Oh CAYLA I am so sorry to hear that! It's a horrific disease, let's hope that vets can come up with some kind of treatment or at least effective screening programme.

Thank you everyone for your kind words, we still miss him terribly.
 
Booboos said:
After a long struggle with Degenerative Myelopathy we had to say goodbye to Dizzy today. We tried everything we could and for a while he was happy running around in his wheelchair but the last week he was just getting too tired and it was time.

He was the loveliest, softest, nicest and most loyal dog I have ever had and I am so sad MiniBoo won't remember him. I feel so guilty we couldn't do more for him, this stupid disease has no cure and we had to basically stand by and watch him get progressively more unable to move. He was only 10 years old and it was such a shame.


This is him just a few weeks ago, he remained as calm and patient as he always was during his whole life and when he was lying down you couldn't tell there was anything wrong with him.

I often thought of this picture with sadness as he became less and less able to move around

Goodbye my little man, I will miss you.
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Hi Booboo,
I just went through the same with my baby boy Joey, he was only 8years old.

Jst like Dizzy he became less and less able to do anything, his 40 min walk became 10min collapsing on the floor for half of that. But what hurts the most is that he was so mentally active and in fact I don't think he had any chance to realise there was sth wrong with him cos he wanted to play and run around like there was nothing going on. Even Friday morning, before the time came up, I was sat n the lounge sobbing and he came in the room with his ball wanting to play. He was really excited when I put his collar on cos he thought he was going for an early walk.

This was on Thursday, we had people working in the house, so I got the inflatable mattress and thought we could do "camping in the lounge". He thought it was great!

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2 days later and Im still crying my eyes out, speaking to him when I go in the bedroom like he was still laying on our bed. I hear his claws on the laminate and his whining like he used to do when I was watching telly and not paying him attention. Don't seem to see light at the end. 2 months later, how do you feel about Dizzy??

I'm finding this really difficult and I have an actual pain in my heart when Im thinking about him, which at the moment is every minute, as he was in every minute of my life. I just wish I could cuddle him 1 more time!
 
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