Chester

My dog’s going to die… I mean he wasn’t meant to live past 10 years anyway and he’ll be 13 in November. He’s been having coughing fits all day and night for months now and the vet explained them and said they couldn’t do anything. This morning he was making these weird hiccupping sounds. He hasn’t eaten anything for a few days and he wont drink until he’s REALLY thirsty then he just drinks the entire bowl in front of him. He wouldn’t even eat anything at my nans and usually he loves food at hers. He did eat a little bit of meat and when I gave him some squirty cream(oh he LOVES that and yes, he’s spoiled). As we left to go to my nans as well his front legs gave way and he fell on his face (sounds funny but it’s quite scary when you see it happen). He just sleeps…He’s a poor old soul. It’s going to be just horrible when he dies. Also, he’s been clinging to me. He wants me to cuddle him all the time. He follows me round. He waited for me to come before he would go into the house when we got home from my nans (I was getting stuff out of the back of the car). He lays next to my chair. He’s my dog at the moment. He’s normally my dads. It’s quite strange. I do cuddle him when he’s ill though so maybe he’s just wanting some comfort and he knows that the rest of the family wont crawl on the floor or lay under the table with him (yeah I’m 18 but I’m still a kid really…and i REALLY do love my dog). *sighs slightly* he’s worrying me and I want him to get better but I know he wont. Hopefully this is just a low time though…he does have bad days and good days so hopefully he’ll perk up and last a while longer. God, I hope so.

– Lauren x