Today is the worst day in quite a long time. We took Lucy to the vet today to have her leg looked at. She has bone cancer. We're going to take her to a doggy oncologist, but of course there's a limited amount that they can do. The vet immediately talked about amputation. I'm not going to do that. She's a hunting dog. It would kill her to only have three legs.
We did a couple of other things today, but they were only normal errands. We did get some stuff for Lola's party tomorrow.
I'm going to start writing down what Lucy does each day. My memory sucks and in awhile this is all I'll have of her.
After the vet today we went to Circle C. The temp was in the 70's. I didn't let Lucy run retrieves as we went to the creek. That bugged her a little, but she still did some running around. When we got to the creek she was pumped to do water retrieves. I let her do 5 to 10. She was beginning to get a little fatigued, so I called a stop. Of course she wanted to keep going. She couldn't understand why I didn't throw retrieves as we walked back. It took awhile to convince her it wasn't going to happen.
On the way back was walked slow so she could explore all of the area. At one place we stopped while she rooted around in the grass for 10 minutes or so after mice. She did a beautiful point. We stopped again later for her to search some more grass. She kept trying to root around the base of a prickly pear. We finally had to call her off.
Of course she didn't want to stop, but she was clearly tired by the time we got back to the car.
Later on I took her to get the mail. The pain meds are clearly working. She was walking without favoring the leg. She's a little stoned though. At one point she tried to sneek up on a blowing weed.
I'm really going to miss her. She's the best dog in the world.
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