On Saturday night, we returned to the city both sets of parents live in to pick up our dogs. Our yorkie, Cosmo, was at my parents while our lab, Dixie, was at Darryl's parents. We headed to my parents first since we were spending that night with Darryl's. We got there fine, and greeted Cosmo, he was SO happy to see us. He jumped up wanting me to hold him and I did that, so happy to see him again. The boys and Nan went outside for a bit, and I didn't really notice that Cosmo followed them. All of the sudden I heard Darryl screaming my name, so I ran to him only for him to be freaking out saying that Cosmo was hit by a car and not moving. His eyes were open, but he couldn't move his back legs at all. I went and held Cosmo outside, it just didn't look good at all. The tears were flowing like crazy from both of us at that point, and the car that hit him was no where to be found. :( How does one hit a dog and keep going? I don't get it. Anyway, Darryl and I rushed to a vet to meet a vet tech who so nicely agreed to meet us there even though they were closed. We went there with the mindset that we'd most likely have to have him put down, but still HOPING that we wouldn't. Cosmo was miserable though. He was SO scared and in so much pain. I was trying to hold him tightly enough to where he wouldn't move much, but every now and again, he'd freak out and just yelp in pain. It was so very sad. The vet teach looked at him and said it didn't look good, but that we might want to try the vet ER about 30 minutes away to be sure. And we wanted to be sure.
That 30 minute drive seemed like forever.
We finally reached the ER, and I was just balling. I couldn't help it. I knew it wasn't good. They took him back and had a look at him and told us he had a broken back and a fractured lung.
We cried some more. We knew what we had to do.
She said they could do an x-ray to see how extensive it all was for an extra $175, but that he'd still have all this treatment to go through even after surgery *if* they could fix it.
We didn't want him in any more pain.
So we held him, and pet him, and comforted him, cried some more, and then the nurse came in with the sedative and euthanasia. Our little Cosmobaby died that night, after living for 5 amazing years! We got him in March 2005, 3 months before we had Caleb. He was from Czech!
He had this frog called Froggle (original name eh?) that he loved from the start. He'd carry this huge this around like it was his sibling or something. It finally got so gross we had to sneak it out. LOL
He was so cute!
Caleb always loved Cosmo, and the feeling was mutual. :)
He looked especially cute after getting groomed this past year after moving back to the States.
He was so easy going with the kids, and even Dixie who liked to play a little too much, and outgrew Cosmo QUICK!
He was the best dog I could have ever asked for, and I miss him terribly!
Love you Cosmobaby!
7 comments:
Cried all the way through your post. It seriously breaks my heart more then you can know. After putting down a dog once, I know it's just awful. And even worse when they are as miserable as Cosmo was and it's so unexpected. I can't imagine the pain you all must be feeling. Know I think and pray for your family often Erin. I know how hard that must be. Cosmo was the cutest dog. I know he will be really missed. <3
I'm so sorry for the loss of your furbaby! It's never easy to lose a loved one, even a pet. My heart still hurts for a kitty I lost several years ago, I had had her since I was 9 years old, and she lived to be 18 years old, so it was DEFINITELY a hard loss for me.
I feel your pain too. We still talk fondly of our sweetie Rosie and that's the best part now, when you can remember all the great times with them. It does get a little easier.
By the way, LOVED the wreath you and your mom just made. I want to make one now!!!!
I am so sorry. I recently had to put our cat down and it was the hardest thing.
Thanks so much for the kind comments. They really do help! It's so weird going around the house without him. But I'm so glad he's not in pain anymore.
I'm so sorry for the loss of your sweet Cosmo. I know how hard it is to loose a pet so suddenly and unexpectedly, it has happened to use before. My heart goes out to you.
I'm so sorry to hear about your dog. We have two adorable furbabies and I don't know what I would do if that happened. I'm glad the little guy isn't in pain anymore and I'm sure he knows he was and still is a very loved little guy!
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