My Sister Princess, The Best First Dog I Could Ever Have.

Chapter 12: Goodbye Boo Bear!

Wow just like Champ, Boo has won an Agility title! We are one away from a second title! It's June 2019. I sign Boo and I up for another dog agility CPE trial. The date for the Trial is set for Sunday June 30 2019. I can't wait ! We are determined to get his second agility title.

Days go by. It is now the week before the trial. It is Friday. Boo is not feeling well. He is limping. He is in pain and is struggling to move. Mom calls me on my cellphone while I'm on the way to a date with my new boyfriend. "Kimberly, I am not trying to alarm you, but Boo is not doing well. He struggled to get up the steps from out back in the yard. I had to help drag him in. His back legs aren't working well."

I start thinking oh no should I not go on this date? I then tell mom, "I'll continue this date, however I will end it early and come home to check on Boo." I end my date at a little around 9:00 pm. I head home. When I get there it seems like every thing is fine with Boo. He is walking ok just with a small limp. Nothing unusual. I take him out front to go potty and then bring him in. He comes up the stairs no problem.

That night I let him sleep with me on my bed. When we wake up the next morning, my mom and I call the vet office to try and have the vet check him out. "I'm sorry but we are all Booked up. I can't even add him in as a work in. We will send his info to VSH.

VSH is an Emergency Vet Office that we took Champ to when we lost him to cancer. My mom and I got up and left the house we get to VSH a little before 9:00 AM. I start filling out the paperwork for Boo. We stay in the vets office till late in the afternoon. He gets an X-ray taken.

The doctor comes in and pulls up the X-rays. "I am concerned about his left shoulder. It looks to me like it could be cancer, the vet says. There is like a 10% chance that it's benign. We can have a radiologist look it over on Monday. We can give you some pain pills to give him in the mean time."

I agreed to have the radiologist look at the X-ray. The vet says, "we will give you a call on Monday with the results. If you don't hear anything by 4:00 pm then please call and find out the results.

Needless to say we didn't go to the agility show Sunday. We didn't go to church either. We stayed home with Boo and Spoiled him. We did everything to spoil him that weekend including table scraps, dog ice cream, extra love though hugs and kisses, and he slept in my bed every night that weekend.

Monday morning came and went. Boo went out in the backyard and ran around. It was as if he was checking to make sure everything was fine and dandy. He came back in from outside and the rest of the day he started to get worse. At 4:00 that day mom called the VSH and tried to get the results. They told her that we were on a call list due to an emergency at the clinic.

Late that night; around 8:00 or so,we get the call from VSH with the news. Yes he has CANCER! My mom and I decided then and there that we would have to put Boo down. We scheduled to put him down today 7/2/19 at 9:00.

Little did we know Boo had other plans. I was awakened at 1:00AM to Boo Throwing up. Again at 3:00 AM he did it again. I checked his gums and they were white/ pale pink. He was loosing fluids and blood was not getting to certain places. He couldn't even stand up on his own. Finally at a little before 5:00 my mom and I decided that we needed to go ahead to VSH.

We got there and they brought a stretcher out and wheeled him in. We said our goodbyes and at 5:37 he was put to sleep. Goodbye Boo Bear I love you and I miss you. Rest In Peace Boo Bear. I hope you have fun running, playing and hanging out with Champ and Princess. We will meet again someday at the Rainbow bridge. Until then you three take care of each other. Princess and Champ watch over Boo Bear.

Goodbye for now. Kimberly McClure