Good bye to our Beautiful Girl

Today we said good bye to Sketch. It was very hard to make the decision and even to the last minutes we questioned our options. The reality was there was no other option. Perhaps we could have given her another pain medication that would have only sedated her more and not changed the outcome. Sketch had hurt enough, her tumor had grown 2 inches in a week and she could no longer use her leg or even stand to eat at her feeder. We gave her great treats today and she rode to the vet with her head out the window. She was happy and excited to see Anne, her breeder and original owner and the three of us surrounded her as she stepped away from this world and all the pain of her cancer.

Anne says she should put warning labels on all her dogs that say" beware guaranteed to break your heart", but I wouldn't trade the pain of this last two weeks for the joy that Sketch brought us in the two years she was ours. She was a beautiful gentle creature our Sketch. She made us smile every day. Thank you, Anne for being brave enough to breed these dogs, it is not for the faint of heart.

Anne left us Heartman, Sketch's son, turns out her female Rune is in heat and Heartman is raising the roof at the farm. So Heartman is here with us now and soon we will have Sailor our puppy. I feel oddly at peace and know that Sketch is not in pain, wherever she may be.