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I don't know if this is the right place to post this but here goes anyways.
I just wanted to post a memorial to my sweet Weimaraner Blue. On Thursday we had to make the difficult choice to have him PTS and my heart breaks with his absense.
We had an ongoing problem with Blue...it has been going on for about 3 months. He had gained some weight and was having some odd mood swings. We thought it was possibly thyroid imbalance..multiple test came back negative. The aggression increased and we kept testing...Lyme, Crushings, Addisons..we could find nothing.
And see..he wasn't mean. He would be his sweet old self and then for no reason snap and start growling and nipping at people. Towards the end it got to the point where we didn't know if he would be "Dr. Jeckall" or "Mr. Hyde"
Then we got hopeful...he started going a few days at a time with no incidence and I thought we had more time to figure it all out.
Obviously we had been keeping him from our children to play it safe. I would give him a great work out early in the mornig. Let him stay outside till about 8 am, bring him in, feed him and put him in my room with Brutus and some chew toys. When the kids napped, I gave him run of the house.
Thursday was the bad day when the world fell apart. I brought him in and fed him, got his chew toys out and called him to follow me into the room. He was excited about his treats, wagging his tail and hopping about. My daughter, who is 2 was about 3 feet behind him and called out "Nite, Nite Blue" and he snapped.
He turned and bit her in the face. Thankfully it wasn't a bad bite and she will not suffer any permanant damage.
After this I got him put up, tended to Shayla and waited. Once the kids were sleeping for their nap, I went into my room to gather laundry.
Blue was resting on the bed and appeared to be sleeping. A spilt second later he is growling and lunging at me. Thankfully I got out of the room and closed the dorr in time.
He then proceeded to have some sort of fit. He shredded everything in my room, and then kept growling and throwing himself againt the french doors in our room.
I called my husband and my vet and we knew he couldnt go on.
When DH got home, Blue calmed a little bit but sat there whining and shaking terribly as if somethign was hurting him. We went through a series of him whining and then biting, and back and forth.
We gave him a sedative and took him to our vet where he was PTS.
We have had Blue for 5 years and he truely left a hole in our lives with his passing. We have decided to have a necropsy done to determine what demons plagued my sweet boy. Hopefully we will have our answers soon.
Needless to say this is a very rough time in our lives but I do find comfort in the fact that Blue is at peace and whatever was ailing him is no longer hurting him.
RIP sweet Blue. :(
I just wanted to post a memorial to my sweet Weimaraner Blue. On Thursday we had to make the difficult choice to have him PTS and my heart breaks with his absense.
We had an ongoing problem with Blue...it has been going on for about 3 months. He had gained some weight and was having some odd mood swings. We thought it was possibly thyroid imbalance..multiple test came back negative. The aggression increased and we kept testing...Lyme, Crushings, Addisons..we could find nothing.
And see..he wasn't mean. He would be his sweet old self and then for no reason snap and start growling and nipping at people. Towards the end it got to the point where we didn't know if he would be "Dr. Jeckall" or "Mr. Hyde"
Then we got hopeful...he started going a few days at a time with no incidence and I thought we had more time to figure it all out.
Obviously we had been keeping him from our children to play it safe. I would give him a great work out early in the mornig. Let him stay outside till about 8 am, bring him in, feed him and put him in my room with Brutus and some chew toys. When the kids napped, I gave him run of the house.
Thursday was the bad day when the world fell apart. I brought him in and fed him, got his chew toys out and called him to follow me into the room. He was excited about his treats, wagging his tail and hopping about. My daughter, who is 2 was about 3 feet behind him and called out "Nite, Nite Blue" and he snapped.
He turned and bit her in the face. Thankfully it wasn't a bad bite and she will not suffer any permanant damage.
After this I got him put up, tended to Shayla and waited. Once the kids were sleeping for their nap, I went into my room to gather laundry.
Blue was resting on the bed and appeared to be sleeping. A spilt second later he is growling and lunging at me. Thankfully I got out of the room and closed the dorr in time.
He then proceeded to have some sort of fit. He shredded everything in my room, and then kept growling and throwing himself againt the french doors in our room.
I called my husband and my vet and we knew he couldnt go on.
When DH got home, Blue calmed a little bit but sat there whining and shaking terribly as if somethign was hurting him. We went through a series of him whining and then biting, and back and forth.
We gave him a sedative and took him to our vet where he was PTS.
We have had Blue for 5 years and he truely left a hole in our lives with his passing. We have decided to have a necropsy done to determine what demons plagued my sweet boy. Hopefully we will have our answers soon.
Needless to say this is a very rough time in our lives but I do find comfort in the fact that Blue is at peace and whatever was ailing him is no longer hurting him.
RIP sweet Blue. :(
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