I did try to call the vet and he was away at a church meeting and the emergency vet was about 45 min away, when we knew it was bad( he quit walking around and just crawled back in his kennel and layed there wining) We knew we would not get him there in time. So we as a family decided to let him leave us with all of us here with him. We named him Kaw-liga because on the way home when we got him he whined and it sounded like an indian, and Kaw-liga came from that Hank Williams Jr. Song about the wooden indian man. Thank you so much, it upsets me to see but here are the pictures we took of him just a week ago.