Its with a very heavy heart that I'm posting here today. We had to let and help our beloved Sam to the Rainbow Bridge.
Sam was our beloved Boxer mix that we had for 13 years. This is so hard because it in a way came as a surprise to us. We knew he was getting on in age. Everytime we took him to the vet we feared the worse. The last was two weeks ago and it was a bladder problem he was on meds for 10 days and he was doing great. Last night he vomited so hard (twice). Afterward he walked around in what seemed to be pain. At times he wouldn't lay down then when we brought him in the house to go out to the garage where hubby works on his computer we brought out his bed, he laid on it for a while then went and curled up in the corner. When my husband went to upstairs to watch tv and sleep Sam went to the bottom of the stairs and just laid their. He didn't want to go up or down the stairs. He wasn't interested in food or water which is not like him. The vet had him stand and watched as his body just didn't want to hold him he checked his reflexes and Sam didn't have much on his rear left. They took xrays and found either Cancer or some kind of tumor effecting his vertbray in the pelvic area where the nerves come out. Basically what was going on with him was inoperatibale. Instead of letting our oldest child deteriate and suffer we chose to let him go. We will always love our SAM.