Pet Forum / Miscellaneous / Pet Loss / April 2005

Carol,
How are you getting along after two such huge losses?  I think of you often
and hope that things are settling down a bit.  I know how difficult it can
be.  Take good care of yourself.

My beloved dog Toshie went to the Rainbow Bridge last Monday (3/28/05).
I chose to take her life.  She was suffering - she had a spinal tumor
that was pressing on her colon.  She had a really hard time defecating.
She was dragging her right hind leg and it was becoming mutilated -

From the _Baltimore Sun_, Saturday, April 2, 2005:
In what is being called the first felony conviction for animal abuse in
Howard County, an Ellicott City man accused of sodomizing a cat was
found guilty Friday, April 1, in Howard District Court of mutilating and