[NAGDU] Very Sad News

[Marilyn tucci]

Hi Mardi,
I am so sorry to hear about your lizards and your beloved Wanagi passed 
away. Your in my thoughts and prayers as we all know what its like to 
loose a beloved family member.  Our animals are a part of our lives
Marilyn and Anna


On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Mardi Hadfield via NAGDU wrote:

> Hi all, Mardi here.Things here have been very hard  on me. In June, I 
> lost
> 2 of my rescued Bearded Dragon lizards with in a week of each other. 
> They
> died of a deadly virus. On Monday morning of this passed week, my 
> Beloved
> Wanagi died. She was the white Husky that I adopted from our local 
> pound
> and I was going to train her as my guide. She had a cough that was
> diagnosed as kennel cough. She still had the cough after the meds were
> gone. She was diagnosed with Valley Fever She recovered from that and 
> was
> able to be off the meds. Again I tried to train her as my guide. One 
> day I
> noticed that one of her beautiful blue eyes looked different.Off to 
> the vet
> again. I was told that the Valley Fever had gone to her eye and she 
> was
> blind in that eye. I so wanted Wanagi to be my guide but it was not to 
> be.
> Wanagi was such a sweet,loving dog and this just breaks my heart. Any 
> way,
> that morning,she was laying by my bed and all of a sudden I heard her 
> cry
> out, the most blood curdling, in pain sound. I jumped off the bed to 
> see
> what was wrong.She just lay there, unresponsive. I called my friend 
> and she
> rushed over and another friend helped us get Wanagi in the car. As we 
> were
> in the car on the way to the vet, thoughts of my beloved guide Nala 
> were
> going through my mind. This was very sudden and  both Nala and Wanagi 
> were
> perfectly fine an hour before this happened. Neither one showed any
> symptoms at all.We got to the vet and were waiting to hear what the 
> vet had
> to say. Wanagi had the same tumor on the spleen that killed Nala in
> 2011.Wanagi's tumor also had grown all the way up to her heart. The 
> one on
> the spleen had burst. There was nothing that could be done for her. 
> She was
> put to sleep. I loved Wanagi as much as my guide dogs and my heart is
> broken. All the other dogs have been looking for her as she was the 
> pack
> leader,that is, under me.The vet said that this kind of tumor is very
> common,and she sees about 2 to 3 dogs a month with the same tumor,and 
> the
> outcome is always death.      With sad hearts,   Mardi and
> Shaman,semi-retired, Neechee,GD and Sedona, GDIT and Tokala, 
> Tunun,Tess,
> and Mayah, my rescues and Lady who is staying with me for a while 
> until she
> can go and live with Rachel.
>
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