Please say a prayer for Tazz...surgery today
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Mama_Zookeeper
Boxer Insane
I am so very sorry to hear about Taz. This is the last news I wanted to see on this thread. I hope with all my heart it brings you comfort to know you helped your beloved friend escape the confines of cancer.
Godspeed Taz
Dora & the Zoo Crew
Godspeed Taz
Dora & the Zoo Crew
Cindy Creel
Boxer Insane
I am so sorry for your loss. I know how hard it is to let one of our furbabies go. It never gets any easier. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
Cindy
Cindy
Holden's Mom
Boxer Insane
I am very sorry for your loss. Taz was loved and happy on this earth and I'm sure he is running free and happy at the Bridge while he waits for you and Petey.
Godspeed Taz.
Pam and Pete
Godspeed Taz.
Pam and Pete
RosNeville
Boxer Pal
Our best for you! and our own hopes
Hi there - We do hope your Tazz goes on well - we've just heard that our own lovely Hester - 9 years old and has a cancer in her right hind leg - may well be facing amputation. She's been at home quietly since the local vet diagnosed cancer, and we had her leg X-rayed by a specialist last week. Yesterday she tripped and fractured her leg - she's at the hospital today, and tomorrow we get to hear what the vet there thinks. We're mostly decided on amputation, abnd the very positive posts on this site have helped us to feell better about it. She's such a lovely dog, and a very special family member - she just loves being with us, and we think she thinks she's really a person - just a smaller one, you know.
Fingers crossed - Ros and Neville
Hi there - We do hope your Tazz goes on well - we've just heard that our own lovely Hester - 9 years old and has a cancer in her right hind leg - may well be facing amputation. She's been at home quietly since the local vet diagnosed cancer, and we had her leg X-rayed by a specialist last week. Yesterday she tripped and fractured her leg - she's at the hospital today, and tomorrow we get to hear what the vet there thinks. We're mostly decided on amputation, abnd the very positive posts on this site have helped us to feell better about it. She's such a lovely dog, and a very special family member - she just loves being with us, and we think she thinks she's really a person - just a smaller one, you know.
Fingers crossed - Ros and Neville
TYS0NSM0MMA
Boxer Booster
Taz
I am so glad that you did make the decision to let him enjoy his last days being loved by you and your family. I know how hard it is to lose a furbaby.. I lost my 2 boxers in a housefire last year, so I didn't even get to be with them at their sides when they passed, and our first boxer Winnie died at 5 from a massive heart attack. We went through the questioning too.. should we help her cross the bridge or let her enjoy herself and be with us until she is ready to go, well we decided to let her pass on her own. I noticed that she was sighing a lot, and i dont mean once and a while but constantly so we took her to the vet and he told us that her heart was weak. We got her some meds to help her but gradually she lost her appetite and wouldnt eat her favourite mashed potatoes and gravy.. we knew it was time. We set an appointment for later that day when we would all be home. She waited until I got home from school, I gave her a kiss on the head and hugged her. She was in our front yard with my older brother when she passed. she waited for me.
I feel for your loss, Taz is probably very happy at the bridge with all of our past babies including my 3 (Barry, Roxy and Winnie) and I'm sure he is looking down and loving always on you.
Colly, Tyson and Sable
I am so glad that you did make the decision to let him enjoy his last days being loved by you and your family. I know how hard it is to lose a furbaby.. I lost my 2 boxers in a housefire last year, so I didn't even get to be with them at their sides when they passed, and our first boxer Winnie died at 5 from a massive heart attack. We went through the questioning too.. should we help her cross the bridge or let her enjoy herself and be with us until she is ready to go, well we decided to let her pass on her own. I noticed that she was sighing a lot, and i dont mean once and a while but constantly so we took her to the vet and he told us that her heart was weak. We got her some meds to help her but gradually she lost her appetite and wouldnt eat her favourite mashed potatoes and gravy.. we knew it was time. We set an appointment for later that day when we would all be home. She waited until I got home from school, I gave her a kiss on the head and hugged her. She was in our front yard with my older brother when she passed. she waited for me.
I feel for your loss, Taz is probably very happy at the bridge with all of our past babies including my 3 (Barry, Roxy and Winnie) and I'm sure he is looking down and loving always on you.
Colly, Tyson and Sable
MinniMse99
Boxer Pal
Thanks to you all for the thoughts and prayers. I'm doing much better in dealing with Tazz's passing, and still feel him around all the time. It's hard when hear from distant friends (and even aquaintances) who didn't know, and they ask how he's doing or where he's at. Or when the small kids in the neighborhood continually ask "where's Tazz" because they don't understand that he isn't coming back. Minnie (our female boxer) is slowly adjusting also. Sometimes I feel like she's never going to be the same - she doesn't run and play as much, seems to have calmed/settled down alot in a short period of time.
My thoughts & prayers are with Hester, Ros & Neville. I hope everything turns out good for you all. Give your baby all the love you can.
My thoughts & prayers are with Hester, Ros & Neville. I hope everything turns out good for you all. Give your baby all the love you can.
RosNeville
Boxer Pal
Home again
Hester, 9 yr old brindle, had her hind leg amputation last week and is home again. She's due to have her stitches out this morning - though the wound is not healing entirely ideally, but is mostly OK. Vet has put her on antibiotics,and advises that all will be well. She's hopping along well, and can manage pretty well everything - though she does crash about a bit occasionally. I'm conscious that she can't scratch as she always has, so I try to compensate by giving her a good old scratch myself from time to time, which she seems to appreciate.
She certainly does look odd, and the shaven patch doesn't help. But that will grow again - already much better. On a visit to vet y'day, most people didn't notice that she has only three legs - until she began the struggle to get up on to her feet on the smooth linoleum floor!
The big thing is the pathology results - due in a few days, when we learn more about the cancer, and to find more about the prospects for the future. So fingers are still definitely crossed.
Neville
Hester, 9 yr old brindle, had her hind leg amputation last week and is home again. She's due to have her stitches out this morning - though the wound is not healing entirely ideally, but is mostly OK. Vet has put her on antibiotics,and advises that all will be well. She's hopping along well, and can manage pretty well everything - though she does crash about a bit occasionally. I'm conscious that she can't scratch as she always has, so I try to compensate by giving her a good old scratch myself from time to time, which she seems to appreciate.
She certainly does look odd, and the shaven patch doesn't help. But that will grow again - already much better. On a visit to vet y'day, most people didn't notice that she has only three legs - until she began the struggle to get up on to her feet on the smooth linoleum floor!
The big thing is the pathology results - due in a few days, when we learn more about the cancer, and to find more about the prospects for the future. So fingers are still definitely crossed.
Neville
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