Maisy

Maisy Moo!

This is right after we got Maisy and the kids just wanted to hold her and squeeze her, especially Gwenie who was screaming and whining the entire time until we let her hold her.

Gwen was actually really good with her. She would hold her soft and then put her down gently. But then she wanted to do it over and over and over again, and Maisy didn't care for the repetition.

Noah loved Maisy. He would lay down and play with her constantly and he loved it when she would come over and lick his whole face.

Both the kids loved being chased by Maisy. She had a love/hate relationship with feet and shoes. She would bark and chase them like there was no tomorrow. She was quite entertaining.

This is my friends little girl holding Maisy just a few days after we got her. We were at the park and Maisy was the hit of the party. I am sad to say that I never got my own kids in a picture like this. So thanks Cloe for holding still for a cute picture with Maisy.

Well as you can tell we got a dog, a toy poodle on Saturday, May 2. She was a good dog for the week and half we she was with us. Unfortunately, Noah took her out last Saturday to go potty, which he has done many times. Well Maisy apparently had to go so bad that she jumped out of Noah's arms on the grass and hit her head. She began to have seizures that were pretty intense. I thought she was paralyzed and leaving us right then.

I hurried and found the number to the Animal ER and got here there as fast as I could, while she was seizuring on my lap. We got there and they got her stable overnight. Jason went and picked her up the next morning and brought her home. We couldn't leave her alone, so I went to my parents house for a Mother's Day dinner.

They had to shave one front leg and one back leg to get needles in her.

She was so tired after all those seizures and probably not sleeping much at the hospital. Poor girl!

She was doing extremely well Monday. Then Tuesday (today) she had a minor seizure in the morning and then another one not too long after that. I called the vet and they said that it was perfectly normal for her to have seizures after a head trauma and told me not to worry about it unless it got worse. Well it did get worse. During the seizures she would shake and foam at the mouth. Then after she came to, she would run around like crazy, spinning in circles and one time when the seizures got worse, she even ran into the wall.

By the time she had 5 seizures, and they were more intense then the first ones, I called the vet and they told me to bring her in. I had to do a party tonight so Jason left work early to take her, and our neighbor, Erin Pyne, watched our kids for us.

They gave Maisy valum. They also gave Jason some suppositories of valum to give her every so many hours. He then went and picked up some seizure medicine for her.

After he brought her home, gave her the medicine, and was putting the kids down for bed, her seizures got worse. Jason didn't know what to do. So he called a girl in our ward to come and stay with the kids while he took her to the Animal ER. At this point he had decided that putting her down would probably be the best thing for all of us, especially for her. The doctor was trying to give him options, but it all ended up with her suffering longer and just living a life of sedation, practically being a form of a vegetable, and we didn't want to do that to her.

Jason called me at the party I was doing and asked me what I thought and we both agreed to help her leave this life and her pain. I left the party just after that, the people were very nice and helped me pack up everything quickly. I headed home to find Jason digging a hole for Maisy to rest in. We were both very emotional.

I was able to say goodbye to Maisy and hold her lifeless body and tell her that I loved her. The kids don't know yet that they puppy is gone. But we will have a family funeral for her tomorrow and help them to understand our Heavenly Father's plan for all of us.

So in a week and a half we bought a beautiful, sweet, fun loving and wonderful puppy. We played with her every chance we got. Took her to the park. Cleaned up her messes, but she learned so quickly to go potty outside within a few days. She was an incredibly smart dog. We tried to save her and then realized someone else had to save her, that is why she is with her Heavenly Father now.

So a week and a half and $1,000 later we ended up with broken hearts, an empty kennel, a bag of untouched puppy food, dried out tear ducts and a wonderful puppy buried in our back yard. But we also are left with a wonderful lesson for ourselves and our children of the plan of salvation.

I know it was a very short time that we had her, but she became apart of our family so quickly and our children (and us) fell in love with her so fast. She will always have a part of our hearts.

We love you Maisy. See you soon. Hope there are people running around with shoes on for you to chase around up there.