No more Inu...a sad story

Yesterday our beloved furbaby Inu wasn't doing well...coughing, gagging, spitting up stuff, trouble breathing, couldn't walk....took her to emergency vets at 3:30 in morning since she couldn't catch her breath.....they put her in an oxygen tank with meds and she finally stopped the severe gagging. It had been 1.5 hrs of this gagging.  Lots of thick mucus had come up and very phelgmy breathing still and we left her for an hour - told her we would be back but she didn't seem to really be with it. They told us she had high liver values, cushings disease, pneumonia and didn't think she could pull thru....we got a call an hour later and she had a cardiac arrest but they did CPR and got her breathing again and wouldn't do anything else till we came back.

Five min. later we were there but it was obvious the machine was breathing for her and was told she wasn't there any longer and when they take the respiratory machine off her she would not be able to breath on her own.  The pneumonia together with the high risk factors she had and a little overweight and then the 2 breathing attacks and phelgm were just too much for her.  So we had to let her go....can't believe she's gone - since she was 14 yrs old, things like this are harder for an older dog to recover from....can't help but wonder if we had taken her in when she started coughing right off if they would have been able to help her....

Miserable day and night for hubby, me and our other dog, Tootsi, who keeps going around looking for her and goes outside the puppy door to look for Inu and wait for her to come back....Inu was such a sweet, gentle, loving dog, smart, picked up stuff quickly, and also hardy and well most of her life.  But maybe it's a lesson that with older dogs you need to pay attention to their health and take them in to be checked out more often so you can catch anything that might develop as senior dogs are more likely to develop something, pick up something, recover slower, etc.  

We love you Inu and miss you terribly - had you since you were a puppy we got from the Humane Society in Ga. and took her with us when we moved to Arizona.  We know having a dog for 14 yrs is a long time but eventually it comes to an end as dogs aren't like people.  We had a lot of wonderful experiences with her - got lots of pics and videos thank goodness....and will look for you at the Rainbow Bridge!  Bye bye Inu my baby girl.