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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This morning I took Anna into the Vet and we let her go. She had been going downhill the last month, and something, I don’t know what, happened overnight. Early this morning I’m asleep, and a small little noise woke me up. It was an odd noise from far off, and immediately my thought was that Anna must be stuck on her side again, so I hopped up and went looking for her. She wasn’t in the house at all, so I looked out the window of the office/sunroom where she normally slept in her favorite bed, and she was laying on her side on the patio, paddling her legs and barking. She had fallen off of the ramp and couldn’t get up, so I ran outside in my jammies and got her up, but she couldn’t stand, one of her front legs kept collapsing. Picked her up and got her in the house. Long story short, she could barely stand, was blind, had scraped her front leg, back leg and tail, was terrified, and didn’t want to eat. So I called the Vet and made an appointment for 10:30 AM. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>One of her favorite foods (Anna loved all food except bell peppers) was lunchmeat, sliced ham, which we usually had as a treat in the evening, so I decided that would be her last meal, and she had two nice large pieces. That perked her up and she was walking and following me around wanting more food, and I thought maybe I should cancel the appointment…but decided to go change and think about it. Went into the bedroom and put on a clean shirt, came back out to the den and there was a huge puddle on the floor and Anna was walking into the den wall, she couldn’t find the door to get to the sunroom and the pet door. Not a good sign. So I went into the kitchen and got a bunch of paper towels to clean up the mess and when I came back in the den she was walking into the furniture. So we kept our appointment with the Vet and let her go.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If she had only lost her sight we could have dealt with that, but when you added in all the pain she was in, and how she kept falling down the last week, plus getting stuck on her side and not being able to get up, it was just too much, she kept hurting herself and I didn’t want her to get hurt and frightened any more. If I had seen even one sign that she was improving I would have tried to see if we could make more adjustments to keep her safer, but she was getting worse, not better. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So very sad, she was a dear, sweet girl, and wow are we all missing her tonight. I cleaned and refilled the water bowl a while ago, it was always slimy because Anna was a slimer. Never thought I’d miss changing slimy water, but I already do. Good night sweet Anna girl, we love you and we miss you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Anita Woodrum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><a href="mailto:awoodrum@clear.net">awoodrum@clear.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>