[NAGDU] Very Sad News

[Sharonda Greenlaw]

wow! This is absolutely sad news... Mardi, I'm so sorry to hear. Peace
to you and your animals.

On 8/13/16, Marilyn tucci via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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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