The Boss is Gone

Monday morning Emma wouldn't go outside, she just laid there. Eric went and talked to her and noticed that her stomach was very swollen and distended...she's a thin girl so it was easy to see. So, I made her an appointment at the vet that day and I knew the outcome wasn't going to be good. I had a hard time getting her to the vet, she could hardly walk.

The vet told me that most likely Emma had a large tumor that had ruptured and that the fluid that was causing her stomach to be so swollen was blood, she was slowly bleeding to death. She said that this tends to happen in certain breeds and there was nothing we could do for her, even if they did surgery mostly likely she wouldn't make it through it. I made an appointment to come back that evening to have her put down and then I took her home. I wanted to make sure Megan had the chance to say goodbye to her.

Megan said goodbye...it was so sad. Pete (our cat) said goodbye to Emma by cleaning her ears.

Eric took Emma back to the vet and then he brought her body home so Bobbie and Jake could see that she was gone. Then he buried her in a corner of our back yard. We have a dogwood tree that needs to be planted, so we're going to plant it over her, it's very fitting.

Emma was always so well behaved, she was the Alpha female for sure....she bossed the other dogs around and always kept them in check. Today Jake and Bobbie were out at the bus stop with us and two kids had missed the bus so they were dropped off at our stop (our driveway). I was holding on to the dogs until the bus pulled up and the kids got halfway across the street and then I let them go. They never go out in the road, they do this most every morning and they know that Megan gets on the bus and then we go inside....that is except for today, the kids get halfway across the street and Jake runs across the street and Bobby decides if he's going to do so is she. Jake decides he has made it this far it might as well try to get on the bus. If finally get them back in the pen and I'm off to work.

Megan had early release today so Eric's parents picked Megan up at school and brought her back to the house and as they pull up to the house they see Jake sitting in the yard next to road...just hanging out. He had pulled the chain link off the gate and squeezed through the hole, thank goodness Bobbies so fat or she would have been out too. Emma always kept them in line, now that the boss is gone I think we are in for some trouble.