October 18, 2006

• Maxie

  It pains me to post today that the very cute, beautiful loving dog that I wrote about this morning, fell very ill and died tonight.  It is clear to me now that she was already a dog I could like a lot.  

  We had to take her to the vet the second day we had her.  They gave her a shot and some medicine and she was markedly improved for a day and a half, long enough for us to get to know her a little. She was smart, responded to a few commands already.  Seemed, for the most part to be house trained, and doted on our kids, especially our oldest (her "mother"), who she had begun to look for whenever she wasn't around.  She was a quiet dog, that could run fast, but would stop and sit at look at cars whenever one went by.  And then today she threw up a lot and got very lethargic.  I took her to the vet with a fever and was told she had pnemonia and stomach upset and they hydrated her and gave her antibiotics and something for her nausea and we were told to bring her back in the morning, but when we checked on her a couple of hours later, she was gone.  

  It was quiet a cry-fest in our house this evening.

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