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Here's the happy ending story of Gypsy:
We adopted Gypsy from TLC in March of 1996 just 4 months after my husband had a very serious heart attack. He had to stay home a lot and I decided that he needed a companion. My husband was opposed to getting a dog for many reasons and grumbled a lot about it. However, one day we when we were driving to my daughters house, I said let's just stop at the animal shelter (TLC) and look at the dogs. So we did. We saw several dogs but the one who caught my eye was this skinny little cocker spaniel and she was so happy to see us and wagging her tail and bouncing around. The attendant took her out of the cage for us and we walked her a bit and talked with her and she did seem to like the other animals, even the cats which was very important to us because we had a cat. So we decided to adopt her, and brought her home.
Gypsy was not an easy dog to have at first. We found out later that Gypsy had been abused and she was not a trusting dog and was frightened by people, especially men. It took a lot of time and love on our parts to gain her trust and love but when we did it was all worth it. She turned around 95% and became a loyal and very loving dog with us. Gypsy was sick a lot though and it seems that whatever could go wrong with our dog did. She had to have a couple of surgeries on her hind legs, she had epilepsy and respiratory problems.
Despite these ailments etc. Gypsy was a loving companion to me and my husband, but she was definitely my hubby's dog! She was his shadow and he was very, very devoted to her as she was to him. Unfortunately 2 weeks ago Gypsy awoke in a lot of pain and we took her to her wonderful veternarian Dr. Navin, and he referred us to a specialist.
Gyspy had a ruptured disc in her vertebrae. She had to stay at the hospital for 2 days under sedation and medication and then she came home to us. The doctor there told me that the surgery she would probably need might or might not be sucessful and it turned out that Gypsy could not tolerate the medicine with her repiratory problems and continued in a great deal of pain and discomfort.
Much to our pain and anguish we realized that the best thing to do for Gypsy would be to have her put to sleep. And we did. And we have been crying for many days now missing her and wishing that somehow someway we could have saved the life of our wonderful dog.
Depite the pain, the cost of her many ailments, and the time and effort it took to gain her trust and love, would we do it all over again? In a heartbeat!! She asked nothing from us but gave us years of love and company and devotion. We miss her and always will.
Lea & Bill Roberts