<div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">I am very sad to report that we lost our girl Jodie on Wednesday. She went from being perfectly fine on Saturday, to acting odd and pacing and circling and trying to get into small, dark places on Sunday, to having slight difficulty walking on Monday morning (she walked like she was drunk), to having great difficulty on Monday night. We saw our vet then, and she gave her a shot of buprenorphine as well as a prescription of Tramadol. She ate her dinner and slept soundly until 1AM when she woke and began whimpering with pain. She was shivering and whining all night. We saw our vet again on Tuesday, by which time Jodie could hardly walk, she couldn't seem to control her limbs or what direction she was going. She did full neck and spine xrays, chest xrays, and took a lot of blood for testing. The xrays showed absolutely nothing wrong. She gave her another shot of buprenorphine, and sent us home with oral doses of buprenorphine as well as Gabepentin in case it was nerve pain, and predisone in case it was some inflammatory process at work. We couldn't start the pred until she had been off Rimadyl for at least 24 hours, so we went home expecting the buprenorphine to work as it has the night before. Unfortunately after only an hour or so she began whimpering and shaking again. Nothing seemed to help her. I was up all night with her on Tuesday. I talked to the vet on Tuesday night and again on Wednesday morning. We started the prednisone, kept up with the buprenorphine, gave the gabapentin, and still she deteriorated rapidly. By noon she couldn't support her own weight, and if I used a towel as a sling to lift her, she couldn't hold her head up. With extreme sadness we decided it was time to send her to The Bridge where she wouldn't be in pain any longer. We have no idea what was causing her illness, she never gave any indication that anything was wrong until Sunday. <div>
<br></div><div>She was 9 years old, the most beautiful basset I've ever known, and her personality was equally beautiful. She was the best behaved basset I ever knew also--she almost never got into any trouble, never barked, walked great on a leash, slept well, ate well, truly amazing. Her best friend and "sister" Rosey with home she'd been raised passed away last November of cancer. It give me some solace to know they are together again,romping with joy and enjoying The Buffet. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Farewell my Jodie, we will always love you.<br clear="all"></div></span><br>-- <br>Katie in Eureka CA<br>
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