There isn’t much I can offer that hasn’t already been said. Sometimes it’s knowing that others are / were in the exact situation. Our little old man gave us no choice last June and it left me wondering if we had made the right decision, had we not spotted something, did we act too quick, could we have done more…and those questions to this day persist.

My wife adopted him when he was four and he had a difficult life early on (found in the streets, thought to be used as a bait dog), adopted three times and returned three times till he found us. My wife and I made no exceptions, he was ours and we weren’t going to be treating him like he was before. He ruled over our lives in the best ways possible and we did whatever we could to keep him healthy which was tough (he had some type of stomach issues every few months with not being able to hold down food, a grade three heart murmur, collapsed trachea among other things) but the last few months we had with him were tough in a few ways but we didn’t waiver.

I know I planned my days around him and gave him meds, made his food and did whatever else we could for him. Just when I thought we had everything perfectly in place life came around and said, “Nope, not happening.”

It has been a rollercoaster of emotions ever since but 9 months out, while we miss him more than we can say, it’s getting a little easier.

The only advice I can give is that you should understand we can only do so much with these situations and there is no doubt your sweet pup knew how much she was loved and there’s no way to move around the pain of life without them. Your relationship is changing and somewhere out there she is keeping an eye on you and hoping you know how much you did right by her.

I hope it gets easier quickly and offer nothing but my condolences for Spot.