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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
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