R.I.P Smokey

Remembering Smokey

One of the best things about pets is the instant connection you can make with them, and the unconditional love you feel for each other. One of the worst things about pets is that you almost always outlive them.
If you have read our Dogcheapsleeps.com blog or website, you know we have many dogs and cats here, and Smokey was one of our rescue cats. He was about four, and he was on his way to the humane society when the girls at our bank called here, knowing we would give him a home.
During his years here, he was quiet, loving and undemanding, and probably would have been one of the last members of our family to be profiled, except that we lost him this morning. We noticed him lying along the baseboards in one of our offices, and something just looked wrong with his foot. Jeanie rushed him to the vet, and the vet said his back leg had been shattered at the joint. We don’t know how, whether by a car in the parking lot, one of the dogs accidently stepping on him (unlikely) or perhaps something in the warehouse fell on him?
It doesn’t matter. A specialty orthopedic surgeon would have run several thousand dollars, and there is no guarantee the surgery would have worked, or that Smokey would ever have been out of pain. He is out of pain now, but will never be out of our hearts.
Please see our page on what to do in a Dog Health or Pet Emergency. And Petloss.com might help too. After a while.