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I found out on wednesday that my Corgi (13) is very ill.
Her breath was rapid and labored and she would not eat.
Her symptoms revealed themselves while she was staying with my parents. (My father is recovering from Oral Cancer and finds pleasure in her company.)
She has an enlarged heart, fluid around her heart and lungs, and her lungs don't look right.

Everyone loves this dog.

I brought her home when I was nineteen years old; two days after I dropped out of Art School. Shortly after, I rented a studio in a buliding full of artists down by the river.

A photographer who was my studio neighbor once asked me if it bothered me that everyone liked my dog way better than they liked me.

I painted 3 public murals in town. She hung out patiently on the sidewalk beside me, so I painted her likeness in each mural.

She's the kind of dog you can trust in any situation. She doesn't like too much attention. She just wants to hang out. She has inherent manners.

Mr. Flophouse called me 4 times from work on Wednesday. He never calls from work. When he came home, he gave her affection and then said the strangest thing to me:

"She will pull through this! I'm sure that she will be ploughing through the snow one more Winter........But.......We might have to put her down on your birthday in February."

(yep, I'm serious..take a moment to read that again if you have to.)

-I chalked his reaction up to, well...A reaction. He loves her too.

My mother called to wonder aloud if an enema would improve her odds.

-This I did not take so well.

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Comment by Lori on November 15, 2008 at 10:01pm
Im sorry your beloved lil family member is not doing well. So sad.
Comment by photo2010 on November 15, 2008 at 11:30pm
I hope your Dad and your Corgi will be ok. A cat I had long ago, once jumped in my lap and stared into my
eyes when I was crying over my Dad who was ill. He moved his head left and right, clearly worried and
wanting to comfort me. The week my Dad passed, Sam, my cat, was killed by a car. He was always indoors at night..but somehow he got out during the night. I found him on the lawn near the street. I like
to think his soul went to keep my Dad's soul company.
Kevin

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