 Miss Sunni
Miss Sunni,
I can feel your pain in this. Not as much as you since there have been more than one with congestive heart failure in your life. I had a toy poodle I lost with congestive heart failure about 3 years ago,she was 16 years old. She was eating,drinking, sleeping well,sometimes too well and it scared me. She went out in the yard to pottie and look around as always and when she would first go out she still let out a bark that I can only say,to me, sounded like she wanted all to know she was in the yard now. She still ran up the porch steps and still cleared the top step before the porch. But she was breathing like you talked about and she even started to go pottie in the house a lot. If that was because of her heart problem or if it was another problem I never knew. Now I am rambling because I still hurt so much even after 3 years. I ended up taking her to emergency because of her breathing and they put her in oxygen as soon as I brought her in.They took x-rays and her heart had gotten much larger. They felt after she had some oxygen and was put on more meds for her heart I could pick her up the next day. But the next day they told me things had gotten worse for her. They said she had collapsed when they took her out to pottie and was having a hard time not being in oxygen. The brought her in to me and I can still see her little face light up and her tail started just a wagging a mile a minute when she saw me and I lit up too to see her. We visited and she seemed okay to me and even wanted some water and I just did not want to sign the release papers to let them put her to sleep. I cried and cried and I was selfish and I did not stay with her because I did not want to remember her that way. I regret that decision so much now.
I came on here to give you comfort Miss Sunni but I got lost in my own grief and I am so sorry for that. I am so deeply sorry that you are faced with a decision like this and for the loss of your husband with chf and your other dog you lost to chf. I know this must be a terrific decision to be placed with and I pray you will know in your heart the right and best thing to do for your little Charlie. May God Bless you and give you his comfort and peace. Sherri |