Sunday 21 April 2013

✜ Goodbye Millie ✜


It's been a dull, heart-heavy past few days here. Sadly we had to have our baby Maltipoo Millie put to sleep on Friday morning.

It was a truly terrible shock that none of us were expecting and my stomach still clenches like a fist to think that she is gone so suddenly.

She spent her first few days with us normally, playing and licking and running around the house like a normal healthy puppy, but after a few days we noticed her interest in food, water, playing with Jess and even us start to lower dramatically. She was listless, withdrawn and slept the majority of the day in her bed.

Worried, we took her to the vet who couldn't dioagnose a specific problem and said perhaps she had a stomach bug and told us to keep her on a hot water bottle and syringe her meals in to her to get some food in her stomach. After a couple more days of force feeding with no sign of improvement my parents took her back to the vet, she was so fragile, like a baby bird, and we could feel every bone in her body.

When my parents came home they didn't have Millie with them and from one look at their faces I knew what had happened. 

Apparently Millie had meningitis and there was nothing that could be done.
We lost our sweet little bundle of fluff and I'm still trying to make sense of it, we only had her a week but she was completely ours and we were hers and it feels a little more empty in this house without her here.

All we can do is to take all the love we had for her and focus it on this little rascal, Jess, who became so sweet and caring towards Millie in her last few nights.

It was almost like she knew.




16 comments:

  1. Wow...this is so sad and upsetting. I am so sorry about your puppy and the loss your family is feeling. I can't even imagine going through that and whether it's a week or 10 years you were together, it's painful to know there is nothing you can do to help another creature. I hope you and little Jess have a great life together :) She sounds like a great, caring little girl already! Just like you. :)

    xoxo
    Melyssa

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    1. That's so lovely of you Melyssa, thank you so much lady xxx

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  2. This is so sad. RIP Millie, what an adorable little puppy. She was lucky to have had a great, loving family like yours. xoxo

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  3. I can't believe this. I am so sorry, sweety. May she be looked after, and loved, up there. You all made her life so much more special with your own love and care of her. <3 Focus on that. She was happy, and loved. She is happy, and loved.

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    1. Such lovely words! I can't thank you enough dearest x x

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  4. I am so sorry for your loss. She was lucky to be loved and cared for by you & your family. Sending hugs your way.

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    1. Aw, thank you so much for saying that, it means a lot x

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  5. So sorry to hear this, dear <3

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  6. Oh that's so sad... We just had to say goodbye to my sister's four-year-old pup, it's the saddest thing. But I think they appreciate and know the love they received.
    Hope Jess brings you comfort x

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    1. She definitely is Raych~ thanks so much for the sweet words x x

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  7. This is awful.. I'm so, so sorry for your loss :( xx

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    1. Thank you so much for taking the time to say this Charlotte, I really appreciate it xxx

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  8. I'm so sorry.. I actually went through this when I was younger. I was around 10 and convince my parents to get a poodle I had been obsessed with from a pet store but unfortunately he had already been sick by the time he was sold to us and I only had him a couple weeks before the vet kept him overnight and I never saw him again. It still breaks my heart.

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    1. That's so sweet of you to write Stephanie, thank you. It doesn't matter how old you are, it's still such a heartbreakking scenario when your pet goes to the vet and never comes home :(

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