This is a blog about Watson's fight with canine lymphoma and the healthy changes we are making for his little brother Waldo. Watson was my best friend and my love; what we learned from Watson’s ordeal was not learned in vain.
Watson, our beagle/basset mix, was adopted into the Frembes family in January 2005 at the ripe young age of 10(ish). He came to our house with his foster mother from the BONES shelter and I instantly fell in love. He had overcome an abusive past and had the facial paralysis to prove it, but he looked up at me and that was it. He was home.
After two years and seven months of wonderful, healthy years with us, Watson was diagnosed with lymphoma on July 18, 2007. He fought hard in a short amount of time. My sweet boy crossed the Rainbow Bridge on August 16, 2007. He is loved and missed.
This just restores my faith in humanity! So often the animals lives lost in disasters go unmentioned but their mental anguish when near to death is just too awful to contemplate. I hope we see this care being given when planning for future disasters, but so far this act hasn't even been given a mention on our TV news programmes despite all the New Orleans news. Thanks Linda for bringing it to our attention - I intend to make the BBC aware of this.
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This just restores my faith in humanity! So often the animals lives lost in disasters go unmentioned but their mental anguish when near to death is just too awful to contemplate. I hope we see this care being given when planning for future disasters, but so far this act hasn't even been given a mention on our TV news programmes despite all the New Orleans news. Thanks Linda for bringing it to our attention - I intend to make the BBC aware of this.
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