We lost an amazing dog today. I had to make the difficult decision to euthanize Bea on the operating table. She was 10 years old and had been losing weight for a couple of months but the last couple of weeks it became obvious that she was eating very little. We put her up in the dog pen so we could see exactly what she was doing. She would drink, start to eat then just stop. Once again her blood work was all normal. I took her to the clinic for radiographs and ultrasound. I look like she had a blockage of some sort and surgery was the only option. She ended up having a mass, most likely cancer, at her cecum. This is where the small intestines joins the colon. Nothing but liquid was able to go through. And there is really no good way to remove that section. I chose to not let her wake up.
