It's Time Grrrt. It's Time.

[Otto'sMom]

Grrrrt has had a very bad weekend of kidney failure. She ate Saturday morning, and my hopes were up, but she couldn't keep it down and stopped drinking and eating. She can't control her bowels and is miserable. Dr. Moore told me to find whatever painkillers I had to make her comfortable, and bring her in for one last needlestick tomorrow morning.
It's as if she heard "when she stops eating, drinking, and loses control" it's time and she did it all this weekend.
I've known and been prepared for this ever since I've gotten Grrrt. She wasn't expected to live for more than 2 weeks to 2 months. She's lived 5 years with me. Exactly. Her gotcha day is April 7/8. I paid her adoption fee on the 7th, and received her death sentence on the 8th. Five years ago.
It's harder than I thought to sit here and write this, watching her take her last breaths on her dog bed, as she lays staring at nothing.
As selfish as it sounds, just once I'd like for them to go peacefully without me having to intervene. I think back to Dusty, Izzy and the cats I've lost and the decision is never an easy one on my heart.
Goodbye Grrrrt. I know I won't be able to recognize you at the bridge until you bite me. You'll get to be whole, with a sleek doxie body and strong short legs. My petunia. It's time.

[Linus]

Oh Andrea. I don't even know what to say except that I will be thinking about and Grrrt tomorrow. I know that you hate them, but for both you and Grrrt.

Run free, dear Grrrt.

[JanUet]

Oh Andrea! My heart is aching right now, my eyes filled with tears as I read this.

I always had a special place in my heart for Grrt *as I'm sure we all did*

Inside my mind I am shouting No! No! It's not our Grrrt's time! It can never be Grrt's time!
Sadly, Grrrt knows...it is her time and that she has had the best life she could have ever dreamed of having, with you and the Anipals.

Please give her a little kiss from me, Casey & Sophie.

She will be in my thoughts tomorrow.

Run free, Our sweet little Grrt, until we all meet again, at the bridge

[alfina]

I am very sorry Andrea.

[Tex]

Having met Grrrt last year at Buda, I don't ever want it to be her time either!!! But they know when they know, and it's the last kindness we can do for them...not that it ever gets any easier.....

I will keep you and Grrrt in my thoughts and :pray:s tonight. I know that this has to be one of the hardest things you've ever had to do......

This is my favorite picture of Grrrt taken last year at Buda.....:hearts: :hearts: :hearts:

[ebmw1975]

I am so so sorry, i wish I could do something, anything for you and Grrrt. :hearts: :hearts:

[LUVMYGUNNER]

I hate to hear that. I love her in her little hat.
RIP

[michelehbc]

Oh, Andrea. I have been racking my brain. What can I say? What is there to say? I am so sorry does not feel adequate. Even though I am. I am sorry because it sucks to say goodbye. Especially to someone as special as Grrrt. but I am not sorry that she got to spend her last years in your wonderful home, Grrrting, snarling, snuggling and eatin' good. And I am not sorry that you were so blessed to be able to spend those years with her. This is so hard, and I wish that I could say something, anything even halfway decent, but my words are, at this moment, inadequate.
The only thing to say is, Farewell Grrt, Old Girl, run free, and snarl at big dopey dogs in the sky until Mama comes home to be with you forever. :hearts:

[Frzframe]

Andrea, I'm so sorry. I will be thinking of you and Grrt.

[Two Red Smooth's]

Thoughts and prayers for you at this time.