Today my beautiful girl, Kiah, went to heaven. She was just shy of 8 years old!!!!
My heart is broken, and I am not sure how I will get through it all. I have spent all evening between hysterics and sobbing. She was my baby!!!
She was happy, healthy, this morning when I took my daughter in for school testing. No signs of any illness, and happily ate her breakfast and romped around the back yard with Kahn. We came home and my daughters found her curled up next to her dog house laying in the sun, and had passed several hours before. During my sobbing and hysterics my son ran down and got the sheriff who lives a few houses down. (He had found a few spots of blood in the dog house and thought someone had hurt her.) The sheriff came down and examined her for injury, or poisoining. He found no injury, or signs of poison, but found that she had bit down on her tongue which caused the blood. His best thought is she had a seizure, heart attack or was bit by an arizona creature, which caused her to bite her tongue. He didn't suspect any foul play. His estimate was that she had been gone just a few hours.
Friends came over immediately, and we called an animal creation service. They came and took her for cremation at 9 tonight, I would not have her lay out there all night. We will have her home within the week.
I am beside myself, not knowing what happened to my poor girl and that she had to die alone without her family with her. I am somewhat relieved that my rottweilier Kahn was with her. He too is very distressed and has been crying and upset since we got home. All of my dogs have been distressed tonight!
I feel so guilty, what if I could have helped had I been home, what if I could have gotten her to the vet and saved her. Why o why did I have to be gone today!!!!!!! I sooooooooooooo miss my friend!!!!!!