The last few months have been hard. We were still overwhelmed with the loss of Scooter.
The week before Christmas, Xena started to have seizures. She had never had them before so it was alarming. They had began on a Monday and were fairly mild. They progressively got worse.
By Thursday, I had called the vet to set an appointment up for her on Friday because she was having them more frequently. It was scary to watch and we worried that the boys would see her have an episode. She must have had their best interest in mind because she always had them in a room that the boys weren’t in.
As we put her into the car that Friday to go the vet, she had another seizure. This time she screamed. She hadn’t done that before.
By the time we took her to the vet she was blind, in a daze, and not responding to our voices. We had no choice….
We miss her a lot, too, and wish that her and Scooter were still here.
The doctors aren’t sure what happened to her, but I honestly think she had broken heart. She and Scooter were best friends for 7 years and after he was gone, she was always looking for him. If we walked in a door, she looked behind us for him. If we opened the sliding door to the backyard, she looked at his “potty spot” to see if he was there. I think she missed him more than any of us did.
Here are some pictures of the day before Xena left our family.
She looked fine and healthy in spite of the seizures.
I love this one. Cody used to torment her daily and she would put up with it pretty well. I think he knew something was wrong with her because that day, he was being pretty loving.
