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Our Sarge is Gone

8 years ago

We had to put our dear Sarge down this afternoon. He was our chocolate lab, approximately 13 years old, and recently diagnosed with colon cancer. That was pretty much the last straw for him, as he had a lot of health issues going on this past year. As our vet said a couple of weeks ago, ‘we thought Thing 1, 2 or 3 would get him and that was a year ago‘, and he outlived any predictions until we found a mass on his anus a couple of weeks ago. It was a very fast growing mass, and the vet didn’t believe he would last long.



He didn’t want to eat the past few days. He would drink a little water, would eat some cooked chicken and some ham slices. Not anything we would normally give him, but what the heck. We adopted him when he was somewhere around a year old. He had a full life, was loved, loved to run, chase squirrels and balls, was pretty much the neighborhood watchdog, the UPS, FedEx, and mail carriers favorite. we will miss him. i will post a photo of him in his prime.

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