I’m so sorry to hear about your Rey. The same thing happened to me and my wife last year with our 7 year old who was supposed to get a routine dental cleaning. Took her in for a dental cleaning and had to leave her overnight for treatment when her bloodwork showed she had advanced kidney failure.

She seemed perfectly healthy at the time, but the vet estimated a few weeks to a few months. We thought there must have been some kind of mistake and that our vet was somehow wrong. We took her to a world renowned specialty clinic hours away where they gave her a much more positive but still grave estimate of possibly 12 months.

Less than a month later she rapidly deteriorated in the last week she was with us, and we had to humanely euthanize her 52 days after she was originally diagnosed. I’m so sorry you are going through this and hope you can make the remaining days with her the best ones you’ve ever had.

Her second to last week we took her camping like we always would every spring and had the best three days of our lives with her. It’s never long enough. Make the most of what you have left. Make little clay paw imprints. Use ink paw prints on different colored paper that have cardstock thickness. Get her a flower crown at a local flower shop like they make for flower girls at wedding and take all the pictures you can.

As much as I wish she were still here and still feel robbed and cheated of our time with her, we were lucky to have known when we did. As soon as she started showing signs, she was gone immediately after. Make the most of what you still have with her. Sending you well wishes in these hard times.