Bobbins was put to sleep yesterday. For well over a year she’s been suffering with diarrhea, which no vet has been able to diagnose. On the very first day of lockdown last year, she had a lump removed from her leg, and while that’s not connected, it did seem to be the start of a series of health related events – and the vet we took her to last summer said she had canine coronavirus, and the only place we can think she got that from was from the vet surgery.
The most recent vet she’s been going to seemed to think that while Bobbins was suffering from diarrhea, she, at the time, wasn’t losing weight and seemed to be in good health apart from that. There were invasive tests that they could do, however the vet was reluctant to advise this.
And then earlier this year she had the massive seizure which really affected her badly, and while she recovered significantly from where she had been – she still wasn’t quite the old Bobbins.
But over recent days she’d stopped eating, had been losing weight and was becoming sleepy, so Ian took her to the vet to ask his advice, but really expecting him to say that now was the time to put her to sleep, and that’s what happened. Perhaps if she’d been battling one thing we would have asked about more treatment, but the ongoing chronic diarrhea has always suggested that there was something pretty serious going on that we couldn’t see.