This is Gemma, the last photo i have of her as she had to be pts early sunday moring after suffering from severe liver damage. Although my parents looked after her for the past 4 years, i originally owned her for the first 6, so i am so devastated she is no longer with us
She wouldn't feed out of a bowl so there was always food all over the floor and a small piece of vetbed for her to lie on too in the corner. I eventually persuaded my ex hubby to let me have her over bonfire night as she was such a nervous dog and he agreed Funnily enough she never went back to the kennels 
My thoughts are with you and your family at this terrible time :huggles: My thoughts are with you and your family at this terrible time :huggles:
Tried her at agility but was too fearful of all the other dogs and people, but at the end of a training session i would get her out of the car and let her have a go, and she really enjoyed herself. She was never the most energetic of Lurchers, she liked to run a few laps of a field then go home, or if i made her go for long walks she would lag behind, head down looking totally fed up!! :blink: Trying to get her to follow me on my bike was a total no no, she would just refuse to follow me!!!!!!!!! :wacko: 
Apart from the routine stuff, she only ever went to the vet once in 10 years after a run in with a barbed wire fence. So her end has come very suddenly, on Wednesday evening she was very lethargic and sick several times during the night. After a day at the vets next day, many tests later she was found to have 70% liver damage and anaemia and the outlook was not good. All this time Gemma never wimpered, complained or was any trouble to anyone. The vet thought it was worth a shot at treating it and she did pick up by saturday she seemed much more herself. But sadly during the night she was sick again and collapsed in the garden first thing sunday and was unable to move all but her head (still no complaining :wub: ) Her body was too full of toxins and had given up, her look in her eyes told us she had had enough so we had to take her to the emergency vet. The worst of it all was my mum was away in Germany and never got to say goodbye to her beloved Gemmy. My dad has taken it so bad, he is an old fashioned man, not liking to show emotion but of all the dogs he has owned since childhood, Gemma totally took over his heart, i have never seen him care for a dog like he did her, he spoilt her rotten too :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:
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