----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:13
PM
Subject: [pyrnet] RE:Some Very Sad
News
I'd
thought I'd share with you Pyr lovers just a bit of my grief. As most of you
all know I have been fighting a battle with aggression and training with my
Pyr Zeus. Well my battle, actually my crusade, is over. Zeus is
gone.
I
had to have him put to sleep, Not in any way related to aggression, but a
serious medical problem. He was acting not quite right the
other evening, by the morning he was quite bad, like he was in a trance.
By the time I got him to the vet, his pupil was "fixed" and there was allot of
blood behind his eye. The vet said it looked like a tumour in his brain had
ruptured and he needed to be put to sleep.
The
vet also said that, although he could not be positive, he suspects that it had
been there a very long time, possibly since his aggression first reared its
ugly head.
There has been subtle signs for awhile in hind sight,
like he started having accidents frequently on the floor, chewing everything
insight ect. At the time I thought it was a ploy for more attention, as
our training had slowed down lately do to renovations were're doing on
the house. But the vet suspects he was regressing back to puppy hood, a
symptom of the tumour.
My journey with Zeus was a long, hard and sometimes
heartbreaking one, but given the chance to go back in time, even knowing what
I know, I would do it all over again in a second! Just to know and
love him once again.
Aggression was not all who he was. It was a very
small part of his personality. The Zeus I knew was a wonderful bouncy puppy,
who became my best friend. I'll miss him forever. And if this horrible ache in
the pit of my stomach ever goes away, I'm determined to only remember the good
in him and totally wipe the bad from my
memory.
Thanks for
listening, and for all your support through out our troubling
times.
Maybe some day I
will be lucky enough to love another
Pyr.
Sariena
Foley
Proud mom of Zeus
Great Pyr