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Max has crossed over, yesterday morning at 10:30 we made the decision to help him end his suffering. We took him to the vets, and she gave him a shot and he's gone, he's at peace now. I stayed with him until the very end holding his head cradled in my arms, as he took his last breath. He knew how much we love him, he's at peace now.

He will forever have a place in my heart.

The last few days were so very hard. Max had great difficulty standing up and he would stay in one position laying down for whole days at a time, and he just didn't have any strength left at all to move, except to pick his head up. He went two days without getting up so he didn't go out from Thursday night until Saturday night. Yesterday morning he managed, with great difficulty, to walk outside and pee and poop, before he collapsed. My husband and I sat outside with him for a long time letting him enjoy sitting in the meadow, until it started raining. Then we decided to carry Max in blankets to the back lawn, then we called the vets. We carried Max to the car....and took him to be put to sleep. We'd talked about it for days, not wanting to see him suffer so much, not even being able to walk around the house or enjoy life hardly at all any more, he slept a lot. It was an agonizing heartbreaking decision to finally take him to the vets, and we tried to do what we believed in our hearts was the best thing for our boy, so that he wouldn't suffer any more than he already had. His will to live was so strong but his body just couldn't cooperate, he was exhausted.

It's the most heartwrenching thing to go through, wanting to let him live as long as he wanted to, but also not wanting him to suffer like he was at the end.

I spent much time just being near him, inside and outside, just loving him up, in these last days.

Thank you all for your loving thoughts and prayers you were sending to Max and all of us.

Love,

Barb