[Mike]

from yetisledder – 03/26/2004

Something similar happened to us in Anchorage last summer. Our very
healthy 14 year old lab, who looked 6 years old and the vet was
always impressed with her vitality and strong heart, basically was
totally fine, went outside, she came back inside and could barely
walk and her nose was all swollen. She had been stung by bees
before on the nose, since labs of course stick their noses into
everyting sometimes before looking. She is allergic to beestings
and we usually give her a benadryl and take her to the vet and they
give her a stronger antihistamine injection and she is fine. This
time we go to the vet, she is lethargic and out of it. The vet
cannot figure out what is wrong, and we don’t know if she had a
stroke or what. He basically sends us home saying to keep an eye on
her to see if she gets better or worse. she lived for 3-4 agonizing
days of us having to help her up, her rear legs did not want to
work. My wife had to help hold her while she peed, but she did not
improve. We took her back to the vets and left her. A few hours
later the vet calls and we go in and the vet tells us she has some
late stage skin type cancer. This is a shock since she had had a
few growths here and there and we always had them removed and
biopsied and they were benign, and she was perfectly healthy the vet
always reassured us. Well at this point her nose is basically
peeling off, and swollen and oozing yellow yuck. We took her home
after the bad news and had her around for a day and had to make the
decision to put her down. We found a vet that could do it at home
and we decided to do this. By this time she couldn’t walk more than
a few feet and we were feeding her bits of food and some water but
she couldn’t go to the bathroom or get up for more than a minute or
two. So the vet comes and is amazed at our beautiful and otherwise
healthy friend with a heart still as strong as an ox, and what is
the real deal she asks. We had to proceed to put her down and it
took, no joke, 3-4 minutes for her heart to stop. The vet and
ourselves have never witnessed an animal being put down that had
such a strong heart and desire to live. But finally her heart
stopped, and the vet is like, she would have lived for another 5+
years if whatever happened to her had not happened. We know others
in alaska who have had labs well over 20 years and she would have
been one of them. It had been a wery warm summer, and I have heard
that they don’t chem spray unless it is over 70 degrees, and though
we never saw chemtrails, they could have been doing it with the
solvents I have read about.

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