
07/06/2023
July 4th/July 5th - 3yrs ago was a horrible 4th of July.
3yrs ago my dog wouldn’t stay with my mom and wanted to be with me and my boyfriend in the garage. My mom usually closes the windows and sit with her in her walk in closet with some music. That helped. But she was freaking out. We tried to calm her but nothing really helped.
Around 3:30am, she was drinking water (and have been drinking tons of water the past couple days) and she suddenly collapsed!
We took her to the emergency vet and the vet said that she was lucky she didn’t die cause it could have been a blood clot that passed (in her body) and might have gone to her heart or lungs which could be fatal.
She might have been fine and her primary vet would have been able to give her something to get rid of or make the clot smaller safely, if it wasn’t because of her panicking due to fireworks, her heart pumping faster and stronger, and her lungs working harder, that wasn’t an option.
After accessing her, the vet came back with a diagnosis, Hemangiosarcoma, an aggressive form of cancer of the blood vessels. She must have had it for a while but after her last yearly checkup cause she was healthy last time the vet checked her (but that was a year ago). The vet also said that she had a mass around her heart and a lot of fluid around it as well. So the vet put her under and drained the fluid from around her heart.
She was sent home with medications. But unfortunately, she collapsed again in mid-August and we decided it was too stressful on her to drain the fluid again and put her under again, so my mom took her to the vet and she passed there. She was 11 years old (5 months away from her 12th Bday).
Rosey was such a good dog! She was the best dog I ever met and I loved her so much! She was also the first and only dog I ever owned! (i might get another Golden Retriever in the future)
But fireworks indeed stress the hell out of pets and although they may not get hurt by an actual firework(s), what the fireworks cause - the panicking, stress, escaping, destroying everything, etc. - can definitely kill a pet.
I am so sorry for anyone who had to deal with negative s**t when it comes to family &/or their pets (who are family too) after 4th of July!
Photos: 1. Rosey on the day we brought her home for the first time (she’s smiling)
2. Rosey in her angel costume for Halloween ❤️
I miss her so much
Rosey (December 5, 2008 - August 14, 2020)