Petra & Pack

The pack lost two members in two weeks time.  Stormie (top) lost her battle with cancer and HoneyBee (bottom) lost her life to Congestive Heart Failure. Stormie (top) was diagnosed with Cushings about a year ago. She was doing really well with treatment. In September, I started to notice her breathing was changing and she would have episodes of heavy breathing. She had a visit with her veterinarian who discovered she had a mass on her liver that was blocking her gallbladder. We could have done exploratory surgery but I opted not to do that because at that point, Stormie was still Stormie. Surgery would have been hard on her and recovery would have been hard. Plus, I felt in my gut there was more going on. Stormie had a follow up with her veterinarian a month later where we discovered she had developed more masses. After that, Stormie began to lose weight and her episodes of panting became more frequent but she still enjoyed a lot of her daily things and still had a good appetite. I...