My Shih-Tzu, that I adopted 4 years ago without any history turned out to be much older than they thought. It also seems he has some type of spinal issue that causes him pain. He’s on medication, which helped initially, but now..now he isn’t doing all the things he once did. He won’t run, he won’t hop, he won’t get excited because it hurts him. He used to bark at the mail man, bark when the door bell rang…he doesn’t seem to do much anymore except sleep.
With him getting worse and worse, I’m scared to go to sleep every night, because it terrifies me that I’ll wake up and find that he passed. As a kid, we had a dog who looked exactly like the one I have now, same mixed breed. It still haunts me the night she died. I don’t want to lose him, and I don’t want to imagine having to put him down because this condition of his has him in constant pain, pain to the point where he doesn’t like being touched.
I love him with all my heart, I want to pet him and love him. I don’t want to sleep, because I don’t want to lose my best friend.
