Nature rather than football

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metalmonkey80 said:
Nature hit home a bit this weekend.

We buried one of our chihuahuas who died at home on Sunday morning in my wife's arms. She had a grade 4 heart murmur and water around the heart and only pills were keeping her going to be honest.

We welcomed our first grandchild early Monday morning, a week early as he had to be induced as he wasn't packing on the baby fat properly.
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Congrats and condolences
 
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metalmonkey80 said:
Nature hit home a bit this weekend.

We buried one of our chihuahuas who died at home on Sunday morning in my wife's arms. She had a grade 4 heart murmur and water around the heart and only pills were keeping her going to be honest.

We welcomed our first grandchild early Monday morning, a week early as he had to be induced as he wasn't packing on the baby fat properly.
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So sorry for your loss, and the true circle of life.

We lost Daisy (to the right of my avatar) with the same thing 3 ½ years ago aged 13 and 7 months. Her brother Prince (the left one), who has the same is still here at 17yrs and 1 m. Three pills, twice a day - and yes I agree the only thing that keeps him going. We stress so much if he misses a dose for any reason as Chihuahuas are so picky with food as you know and so difficult to put tablets in them.
 
thereisonlyoneno7 said:
So sorry for your loss, and the true circle of life.

We lost Daisy with the same thing 3 ½ years ago aged 13 and 7 months. Her brother Prince, who has the same is still here at 17yrs and 1 m. Three pills, twice a day - and yes I agree the only thing that keeps him going. We stress so much if he misses a dose for any reason as Chihuahuas are so picky with food as you know and so difficult to put tablets in them.
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Thanks, she was a noisy, stinky yellow hound but the house has been really quiet without her barking at everything.

We got her as a rescue when she was 3 (she was only 9 when she went) and she didn't have a good first 3 years as her previous owner had farmed her out for puppies as much as she could be and had possibly broken her jaw at some point too but the vet couldn't be sure what had caused it. When we got her we were told she had been sleeping on a towel on bare concrete and was on a chain. She never really learnt how to play but she loved to cuddle provided she wasn't picked up.

She got dumped into the deep end with us as including my wife's 2 sisters and mum there were 3 chihuahuas, 1 dachshund, 1 long legged jack russell, 1 German Shepard and 5 cats (the mum and 4 of her offspring).
 
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metalmonkey80 said:
Thanks, she was a noisy, stinky yellow hound but the house has been really quiet without her barking at everything.

We got her as a rescue when she was 3 (she was only 9 when she went) and she didn't have a good first 3 years as her previous owner had farmed her out for puppies as much as she could be and had possibly broken her jaw at some point too but the vet couldn't be sure what had caused it. When we got her we were told she had been sleeping on a towel on bare concrete and was on a chain. She never really learnt how to play but she loved to cuddle provided she wasn't picked up.

She got dumped into the deep end with us as including my wife's 2 sisters and mum there were 3 chihuahuas, 1 dachshund, 1 long legged jack russell, 1 German Shepard and 5 cats (the mum and 4 of her offspring).
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For all his ailments I do realise how lucky we are with Prince, 17 and a month and still going is incredible for any dog, let alone one with a stage 4 heart murmour since 11 years old, a liver shunt, 9 teeth left (barely)and arthritis!
 
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