So, as you may have read before in my April 18th journal, we lost our beloved Cody Bear, our golden retreiver, three weeks ago. However, there is more to the story that was not included in my previous journal entry. So, here's the rest of the story.

*******I GIVE FAIR WARNING, IF YOU ARE EASILY SICKENED BY TALK OF BAD INJURIES, OR TALK ABOUT EYES, DO NOT READ ON!!!!! *******


My sister has a Yorkie, Mocha, and since she is living in an apartment that doesn't allow animals, Mocha had been staying at our mother's house. However, my mother has a pug/chiwawa mix, Wally, who Mocha was very jealous of. They got along pretty well, but the two together were constantly barking (yipping) and fighting over toys. So we offered to bring Mocha to our house about a month ago to find out if he would get along with Cody. Since we have previously had Mocha stay with us, we knew he would get along fine with our cats, but he had never met Cody, so we were unsure on that.

So 3 1/2 weeks ago, we brought Mocha over for a night to see if they would get along. Everything seemed fine until bedtime when Mocha tried to take one of Cody's rawhide bones. We didn't actually get to see what happened, but we do know that Mocha started yelping like crazy and would not come to me. Once I finally got ahold of him, I managed to get a look at him by lifting the hair over his eyes and all I saw was lots of blood.

I called out to my husband that we had to go to the ER Vet. He came in and I said look at his eye, he lifted the hair over Mocha's eye and said where's the phonebook, we need to verify the address. So we headed down to the ER Vet and I soon found out what my husband already saw, Mocha's eye had popped out of the socket. The ER Vet said they could take Mocha into surgery that night to put the eye back in the socket and stich his eyelids shut to allow time to heal. We went forward with it, knowing that he may never see from that eye again and that there was a real possibility that the eye would have to be removed some day.

Two days later, Cody passed away. So a few days later we brought Mocha back to our house because he had a cone on his head to keep him from scratching his eye and it was causing a little trouble with Wally. We took Mocha for his follow up appointment and they said they wanted to wait a few days before removing his stiches. After he did have the stiches removed, we were given some drops and creme to put in his eye twice a day for a week because he had an ulcer on his eye about the size of a pencil tip.

We went for his follow up a week later, this Monday, and the Vet said that the ulcer grew and now covers half of his eye. The Vet advised that we go forward with removing the eye now, rather than attempting to treat the ulcer that was causing an extreme amount of pain. We made the decision to go forward with the surgery as it was the best option for Mocha. The vet called me at work to let me know that after the surgery was completed, and Mocha was in recovery, he stopped breathing. The Vet tried to bring him back and were unable to.

So, now we have lost two dogs in under 3 weeks. So while I thought the day we lost Cody was the hardest day of my life, I was proven wrong on Monday, because the day we lost Mocha was twice as hard because it was as if we lost Cody all over again.

So please excuse my random and short visits to DA going forward as I have had a very rough month and have not been in much of a picture taking mood.