SNICKERS, Our Beloved Family Pet

We got Snickers about 8 years ago, she was still a young puppy to our standards.

 

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We got her at the Humane Society as we did all our pets. 

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She was fulled of ticks and her tail was short for her breed as it was caught in something.  As we got to to know our Snickers she was terrified of the vacumn cleaner which gave us a clue what happened to her in her past.

 

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Snickers loved to play ball and made these cute vocal sounds when she played with her dog toys.  She was good with people and animals as she loved our oldest dog, Logan, and looked after our beloved ferrets which have pased onto the Rainbow Bridge also, Chinook and Nikomi like they were her own pups.

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She would tilt  her head the logo of the RCA dog when you talked to her like she understood every word you said to her.  She was full of life.    Rested her head on our lap when we took her on road trips and loved the smell of  cologne,  I supposed it made feel pretty.

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One fateful morning, she suffered from terrible grand mal seizures and her temperature was over 100.  We almost lost her that day.  We spent thousands to find out what was wrong and noone could tell us.  Not cancer, not Valleyu Fever, etc.   She had suffered neurological damage to the brain.   We tried to keep her comfortable as much as we could years after and she had good times and others she would lapse into smaller fits that left her lame in the legs.  In the end, Snickers could not go to the bathroom because she could not stand nor could she walk, she was stubled and fall down like a person on ice skates would who could not skate.  Her quality of life was gone.  She would not eat or drink unless we held water and food to her face as she would not move to her dog bowls.  She made it to the New Year but this year and the year after and so on will never be the same without our Snickers.  We had to put her down, out of our love for her. Our vet had a very nice room with candles and chairs and a nice place to say good bye.  I did not stay those final moments as I was not strong enough but my other half did.  Snickers calm down a little as I left, I was told because I was crying hysterically.   Snickers went to sleep peacefully in my partner's lap as she alwatys laid petting her telling her when she woke, she would be in a place where there was no pain.  We lost Snickers January 2, 2013.

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Tim Smith

Phoenix, AZ