Happy New Year - Good by Keota

This was a bad start to 2009, we made an emergency trip to the Vet in the middle of the night. Our beloved dog (Keota) has congestive heart failure and started gasping for breath in the middle of night. Vet ended up giving him a shot to help reduce fluid and sent us home, telling us to return in morning at 9am to see how he was doing. Returning this morning, Keota seemed to be doing better, but was not eating and we couldn't get his pills down him. The vet forced the pills and thought he might improve some more and give it till five PM and return then. By 4:15 Keota finally ate a little, but would not drink any more water. The Vet said there was not much improvement as far as fluid, and we could go home an give it more time. We made a very hard choice to not have him suffer any longer and have him put to sleep. It was one of the hardest things we have ever had to do. Our beloved Keota was our best friend...........our companion....... our joy. We will miss him. Good-by Keota.............we love you...........my God be with you.

From Keota