Last Thursday from a sudden illness. He went to get his booster shots the Friday before and it trigged an autoimmune response, where his immune system started killing his own red blood cells. It's called hemolytic anemia. We almost put him to sleep wednesday night but brought him home, and Thursday morning he died on his own. My dad came over, he lifted his head up and wagged his tail and my dad tried to spoon feed him. I ran upstairs crying at this point, and meanwhile, Sammy wanted to lie on his side and my dad helped him. Then he just laid his head on the pillow we had there, and died. I walked back down right as he died. :(
I miss my dog. He was a basset hound mix and was 9 years old. He was such a crazy character, he even had his own facebook! No other dog was as funny as him...I've had other dogs so I'm not totally biased! He really had such a goofy person personality. I feel so bad for him and just miss him so much still!
PLEASE: IF YOUR PET ACTS DIFFERENTLY AFTER VACCINATIONS, EVEN IF THEY'VE GOTTEN THEM *MANY* TIMES BEFORE, TAKE THEM BACK TO THE VET!! Your pet can't tell you they don't feel good, they can only show you a change in their behavior. Sammy was acting "tired" starting the weekend before he died but we thought he was just tired from getting shots. He was 9; these shots were nothing new so we never thought something could happen *now*. Then the first couple days of the week we thought he was sick/had an infection. We had never heard of hemalytic anemia or even though that something FATAL could happen, and that he was going to die from this :(
