Survivors and Celebrations

Mayer's Story

I found this little girl in a culvert in Colorado Springs. She was wet and cold and nearly every tooth in her mouth was rotted. I snatched her up and reported her found but when no one came to claim her, she was mine. We fixed her teeth and when she became paralyzed several weeks later, we spent many months in therapy, surgery, acupuncture and massage to fix that too. Through everything she was always happy. Her tail wagged like a helicopter blade and the only thing she really ever wanted was to meet me at the door each night, to have her dinner and her snacks and to lay on her sleeping sack in the sun. She was good to me and she made me a better person. On January 7th she was found to be anemic and the vet said to bring her in on Monday for an ultrasound. But for my Mayer, Monday never came. On Saturday January 9th, she was rushed to the emergency room, in shock and very ill. The vet found a 2 pound tumor of the spleen which had metastasized to the liver. I let my poor girl go because it didn't seem fair to try and make her fight it after everything she'd done for me. There were no warning signs and no symptoms. Oscar and I loved you Mayer. 2 years wasn't long enough.