plymouth.barbie

I haven't done a post for my last adjustment as last week we had some very sad news. Our gorgeous little dog, Jasmin had to be put to sleep after 14 and half years. She was mine and my boyfriends little baby and losing her has been the worst thing that has ever happened to us.

She was such a fighter, she had a cancerous tumor on her leg 7 years ago and had to have her leg amputated, they didn't give her long then, but she carried on and showed them all wrong. They told us that with the sort of tumor it was it could come back in another part of her body, but you can never really prepare yourself for it actually happening. Even though she was nearly 15, she was still like a puppy. We had a lovely christmas with her, she was spoiled rotten as usual. Until we noticed that her breathe had started to smell worse and she was having some problems eating and breathing. We took her to the vets as soon as we noticed some blood coming from her mouth. We had heavy snow that morning so had to take her on two buses to get there. The vet thought she had some rotten teeth so agreed to take her in and get them sorted out. I was so relieved this was all they thought it was. I then got a phone call half way through the day to say that she did have bad teeth but it was a tumor that had attached itself to her mouth that was causing the problems. The vet advised that they couldn't remove the tumor because of the way it had attached itself to her mouth. I couldn't believe what the vet was telling me, it was heart breaking. They said we could bring her home for a while to say goodbye or they could put her to sleep while she was under the anesthetic. We both wanted to bring her home so bad, it was the hardest decision we will ever have to make, but we knew the kindest thing for her was to let them put her to sleep. We had seen how much it had affected her in just a short amount of time and it would have been selfish on out part to have brought her home. We would have hated to see her suffer and if we had to take her back knowing that she was going to be put to sleep, we just wouldn't have been able to do it.

It has been the worse week of our lives. Some people say it's just a dog, but she was part of our family, she had such a little character on her. We have stopped crying as much now and started to remember the many happy memories we have with her. She was such a special little dog and we miss her so much. We collected her ashes yesterday, so she is now back with us again.

Here's a few pics we took this christmas. We always took so many pictures of her, she loved the camera, well she just loved getting attention, bless her.