My little guy Nemo came down with AIHA/IMHA and we had to say
goodbye. This dreadful disease has an 80% mortality rate and can be caused by a
number of different things including vaccinations and tick-borne illnesses. Here’s a page with more information
We owned Nemo (or he owned us!) since he was 8 weeks old. We
had nearly eight great years with him. He was my very first puppy. All my other
dogs were older when I got them.
Some of my fondest memories of Nemo are when I would open
the back door to let him and our other dog outside in the backyard. Nemo would
rear up and attempt to push me out the door with his front paws as if to say, “You
come outside with us, Mommy!”
Another time, I was packing my husband’s lunch cooler for
work. I had set the cooler down in front of the open refrigerator door and I
placed a soda and some other items from the fridge into the cooler. Nemo came
along and dropped his favorite red ball into the cooler, as if to say, “Maybe
Daddy wants to play ball at lunchtime.”
I love how he would tilt his head to the side when I was
speaking to him. He would stare at me intently, like he was really listening to
what I had to say to him.
He was a sweet, sweet boy and I miss him so badly. It’s a
very painful loss and I hope that one day I will be able to think about him
without bursting into tears.
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