I can hardly believe that I'm writing this, but my dear Yogi passed away very suddenly yesterday evening. We had just returned from the vets after his monthly Cartrophen injection and I had left them eating in their cages when Jessica called out that something was wrong. Yogi had collapsed in his crate. I called the vets and drove him straight back as an emergency but he was in a coma and barely breathing. Our wonderful vet - the same one who had diagnosed his problem a few years ago and saved his life - knew as soon as he saw him that the outlook was bleak by the pattern of respiration. They took him through into the back room and gave him oxygen and tried to get an IV line in - it was like some ghastly hospital drama on TV - there was no blood pressure and his pulse dropped away to nothing. Within the space of a few minutes he had gone.
The whole thing was over in less than half an hour - he had been perfectly fine right up until he collapsed. He had walked with the others in the morning, barked at a jogger, jumped on the bed, all the usual things. My vet thinks it must have been something like a thrombosis, heart attack or aneurism to have happened so suddenly. It's a terrible shock and I am devastated, as is Jessica who was with me the whole time. They shared a birthday and have always been close. Yogi was not even 11 and a half - it seems too soon for him to leave us.
Dear Yogi, I wasn't ready to let you go to the Bridge but I hope you are running right there with Merlin, your sweet mum Mira and uncle CK. I hope there are plenty of squirrels for you to chase and perhaps the odd tennis ball too and I know your arthritis won't bother you at all now. I miss you so much, till we meet again xxx
The whole thing was over in less than half an hour - he had been perfectly fine right up until he collapsed. He had walked with the others in the morning, barked at a jogger, jumped on the bed, all the usual things. My vet thinks it must have been something like a thrombosis, heart attack or aneurism to have happened so suddenly. It's a terrible shock and I am devastated, as is Jessica who was with me the whole time. They shared a birthday and have always been close. Yogi was not even 11 and a half - it seems too soon for him to leave us.
Dear Yogi, I wasn't ready to let you go to the Bridge but I hope you are running right there with Merlin, your sweet mum Mira and uncle CK. I hope there are plenty of squirrels for you to chase and perhaps the odd tennis ball too and I know your arthritis won't bother you at all now. I miss you so much, till we meet again xxx
